 (97.14)


Following Edmond Malone, T. W. Baldwin notes a resemblance between this poem's trope for the seasons and the "childing autumn" of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" 2.1.112; he traces the figure to Ovid.Dowden says that 97 seems to begin a new group of sonnets, comprising 97, 98, and 99.Edward Hubler remarks on the "passages of unobtrusive melody and easy grace."