Wonder of Sonnets
Shakespeare's 154 Riddles
Shake-speares Sonnets is a non-fiction
that may reveal Shakespeare’s true picture when all 154 sonnets are well reasoned,
same as a 154-piece jigsaw puzzle.
Repeated try and error to find the best match,
best explanation for each sonnet, is the basic idea of jigsaw puzzle, and abductive
reasoning. To apply that, assumptions are made freely to check if any sonnets can
match them.
Shakespeare is a playwright. It’s reasonable
to assume some sonnets are about stage plays, actors, roles, and what
playwrights will do. Under this assumption to scan all 154 sonnets may find certain
sonnets can be well reasoned to every word, unrelated to the authorship; for example,
sonnet 53 talks about an actor’s substance; sonnet
129 seals twelve Shakespeare’s plays in twelve
lines.
Assume the author to be any potential persons
in Shakespeare’s time and scan the 154 sonnets. If the result converges, then that
will be the best answer to the authorship question.
Themes
• Drama and Actor (8)
007:
the rise and fall of Tamburlaine the Great.
015:
playwrights creating characters as engrafting plants.
053:
an actor having many shadows on the stage.
066:
eleven characters of Shakespeare’s plays in eleven lines.
068:
an actor on the stage playing golden fleece’s Jason.
069:
a playwright’s thoughts reflecting on his characters.
128:
comparing virginal playing with stage performing.
129:
twelve Shakespeare’s plays riddled in twelve lines.
• Religion (4)
• Nobles (5)
• Creation Concept (9)
• Esoteric Writing (8)
• Origin of Shakespeare (21)
• Dedication and Vergilian Lots (17)
• Syphilis (9)
• Mary Sidney Herbert (26)
• Wilton Poets, Christopher Marlowe (47)
The 154 Sonnets
Sonnet 1. Beauty's Rose Might Never Die
Sonnet 2. This Fair Child of Mine
Sonnet 3. Unbless Some Mother
Sonnet 4. Traffic with Thy self Alone
Sonnet 5. A Liquid Prisoner
Sonnet 6. Ten for One
Sonnet 7. His Golden Pilgrimage
Sonnet 8. Mutual Ordering
Sonnet 9. Private Widow
Sonnet 10. Make Thee Another Self
Sonnet 11. Not Let That Copy Die
Sonnet 12. Among the Wastes of Time
Sonnet 13. You Self Again
Sonnet 14. I Have Astronomy
Sonnet 15. I Ingraft You New
Sonnet 16. Maiden Gardens
Sonnet 17. Numbers Number All
Sonnet 18. The Darling Buds of May
Sonnet 19. The Lion’s Paws
Sonnet 20. The Master Mistress
Sonnet 21. Gold Candles
Sonnet 22. Youth and Thou Are of One Date
Sonnet 23. Unperfect Actor
Sonnet 24. My Body Is the Frame
Sonnet 25. The Painful Warrior
Sonnet 26. To Witness Duty
Sonnet 27. A Zealous Pilgrimage
Sonnet 28. Swart Complexioned Night
Sonnet 29. Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes
Sonnet 30. Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
Sonnet 31. All Love's Loving Parts
Sonnet 32. Ranks of Better Equipage
Sonnet 33. One Hour Mine
Sonnet 34. Rotten Smoke
Sonnet 35. Thy Sensual Fault
Sonnet 36. Our Undivided Loves Are One
Sonnet 37. Ingrafted to this Store
Sonnet 38. The Tenth Muse
Sonnet 39. How to Make One Twain
Sonnet 40. Gentle Thief
Sonnet 41. Two-Fold Truth
Sonnet 42. My Friend and I Are One
Sonnet 43. Form Happy Show
Sonnet 44. Injurious Distance
Sonnet 45. My Life Being Made of Four
Sonnet 46. Eye Outward, Heart Inward
Sonnet 47. A League Is Took
Sonnet 48. Within the Gentle Closure
Sonnet 49. Defects and Audit
Sonnet 50. The Beast That Bears Me
Sonnet 51. Excuse My Jade
Sonnet 52. Up-Locked Treasure
Sonnet 53. What Is Your Substance
Sonnet 54. Rose and Canker
Sonnet 55. Judgement That Your Self Arise
Sonnet 56. Sad Interim
Sonnet 57. My Sovereign
Sonnet 58. That God Forbid
Sonnet 59. Invention Bear Amiss
Sonnet 60. My Verse Shall Stand
Sonnet 61. Play the Watchman
Sonnet 62. Sin of Self-Love
Sonnet 63. Black Lines
Sonnet 64. Interchange of State
Sonnet 65. Black Ink
Sonnet 66. Maiden Virtue Rudely Strumpeted
Sonnet 67. Him She Stores
Sonnet 68. Second Life on Second Head
Sonnet 69. Those Parts of Thee
Sonnet 70. Crow and Canker
Sonnet 71. I Am Dead, I Am Fled
Sonnet 72. My Name Be Buried Where My Body Is
Sonnet 73. Death’s Second Self
Sonnet 74. Arrest Without Bail
Sonnet 75. A Miser and His Wealth
Sonnet 76. Fell My Name
Sonnet 77. Waste Blacks
Sonnet 78. That Which I Compile
Sonnet 79. He Robs Thee of
Sonnet 80. Spirit Doth Use Your Name
Sonnet 81. Your Epitaph to Make
Sonnet 82. Strained Touches Rhetoric
Sonnet 83. A Modern Quill
Sonnet 84. Your Equal Grew
Sonnet 85. Golden Quill
Sonnet 86. Compeers by Night
Sonnet 87. In Sleep a King
Sonnet 88. Double Vantage
Sonnet 89. Our Old Acquaintance Tell
Sonnet 90. The World Is Bent My Deeds to Cross
Sonnet 91. Hawks, Hounds, and Horse
Sonnet 92. Yet I Know It Not
Sonnet 93. Eve's Apple
Sonnet 94. Inherit Heaven's Graces
Sonnet 95. Beauty of Thy Budding Name
Sonnet 96. A Throned Queen
Sonnet 97. Orphans and Unfathered Fruit
Sonnet 98. Proud Pied April
Sonnet 99. Six Sinners
Sonnet 100. Skill and Argument
Sonnet 101. Muse, I Teach Thee How
Sonnet 102. Love Is Merchandized
Sonnet 103. My Blunt Invention
Sonnet 104. A Dial Hand
Sonnet 105. Fair, Kind, and True
Sonnet 106. Praise of Ladies Dead
Sonnet 107. Lease of My True Love
Sonnet 108. Nothing Sweet Boy
Sonnet 109. I from Myself Depart
Sonnet 110. Sold Cheap What Is Most Dear
Sonnet 111. Dyer's Hand
Sonnet 112. Profound Abysm
Sonnet 113. Maketh Mine Untrue
Sonnet 114. Monarch’s Plague
Sonnet 115. Blunt the Sharpest Intents
Sonnet 116. Ever Fixed Mark
Sonnet 117. Wilfulness and Errors
Sonnet 118. Eager Compounds
Sonnet 119. Siren Tears
Sonnet 120. Our Night of Woe
Sonnet 121. I Am That I Am
Sonnet 122. TThy Gift,, Thy Tables
Sonnet 123. Pyramids Built Up
Sonnet 124. Leases of Short Numbered Hours
Sonnet 125. Suborned Informer
Sonnet 126. My Lovely Boy
Sonnet 127. Raven Black
Sonnet 128. Saucy Jacks
Sonnet 129. Twelve Lines, Twelve Plays
Sonnet 130. With False Compare
Sonnet 131. Nothing Art Thou Black
Sonnet 132. Two Morning Eyes
Sonnet 133. My Next Self
Sonnet 134. Mortgaged to Thy Will
Sonnet 135. Seven Wills
Sonnet 136. My Name Is Will
Sonnet 137. False Plague
Sonnet 138. Her False Speaking Tongue
Sonnet 139. Use Power with Power
Sonnet 140. Their Physicians
Sonnet 141. Sensual Feast and Plague
Sonnet 142. Beds' Revenues
Sonnet 143. Have Thy Will
Sonnet 144. Better Angel, Worser Spirit
Sonnet 145. Gentle Doom
Sonnet 146. My Sinful Earth
Sonnet 147. Physician to My Love
Sonnet 148. Foul Faults
Sonnet 149. Against Myself With Thee Partake
Sonnet 150. Worst All Best Exceeds
Sonnet 151. Gross Body's Treason
Sonnet 152. Bed-vow Broke
Sonnet 153. A Sad Distempered Guest
Sonnet 154. My Mistress' Thrall