Epithet

April is being described as

a joyful month but Sonnet 98
contradicts the emotions
the author is feeling From you have I been absent in the spring, A Consonance
heartache. The repetition of the sound
U / U / U / U / U / th is creating a melodic
When proud-pied April (dressed in all his trim) B tone in the image the author
is trying to portray-- soft and
U / U / U / U / U / innocent, like youth
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything: A
Problem U / U / U / U / U /
That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him. B
Classical Allusion U / U / U / U / U /
Even the old god Saturn was
touched by the youth and was Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell C
happy. The author reveals how
heartbroken he is by writing
U /U / U / U / U /
that everything is filled with Of different flowers in odour and in hue, D Diction
joy even an old god.
U / U /U / U / U / The colorful diction
portrays a very joyous
Could make me any summer's story tell: C scene revealing that even
U / U / U / U / U / the most beautiful things
cant make the poet
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: D happy, which
U / U / U / U / U / furthermore intensifies
his depression.
Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, E
Development U / U / U / U / U /
Personification Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose, F
The personification
expressed, with the persona U / U / U / U / U /
playing with the shadow of
the unknown person, reveals
They were but sweet, but figures of delight: E
the loss of hope the persona U /U / U / U / U /
feels at the end. The shadow
of the unknown person is all Drawn after you, you pattern of all those. F
that remains. U / U /U / U / U /
Solution
Yet seemed it winter still, and you away, G
U / U / U /U / U /
As with your shadow I with these did play. G