Sonnet

"What tongue can her perfections tell,
In whose each part all pens may dwell?
Her hair fine threads of finest gold,
In curled knots man’s thought to hold:
But that her forehead says, “In me
A whiter beauty you may see”;
Whiter indeed, more white than snow,
Which on cold winter’s face doth grow.
That doth present those even brows
Whose equal line their angles bows,
Like to the moon when after change
Her horned head abroad doth range;
And arches be to heavenly lids,
Whose wink each bold attempt forbids.
For the black stars those spheres contain,
The matchless pair, even praise doth stain."

Sir Philip Sidney

This sonnet is a Blazon. Another type of a Petrarchian sonnet. A Blazon is a sonnet that catalogs the features or traits of its subject, usually a woman, and describes them using hyperbole, metaphor, or simile. I chose this sonnet because I had never heard of the Blazon sonnet and this was the example from the PowerPoint. In Sir Philip Sidney's blazon he is praising a woman's beauty. By using the Blazon form he was able to catalog her body into different sections and then praise each body part separately.