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Read the lines of verse. From Sonnet 130, by William Shakespeare

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

What does this final couplet from Sonnet 130 suggest about the speaker’s feelings?


His love has been misrepresented through false comparisons.


His love is as charming as any of those who are praised by false comparisons.


True love lasts forever and nothing in heaven can stop it.


True love is rare and can only be found in heaven above.

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His love is as charming as any of those who are praised by false comparisons.

Throughout the beginning of Sonnet 130, the speaker uses various images that show his beloved is not as perfect and beautiful as other poet's make their beloved's out to be. Instead of elaborating and exaggerating on his beloved's features, the speaker says the object of his love has hair like wires and stinky breath. However, at the end of the sonnet, the speaker says that he loves his beloved just as much as any of those others who would make elaborate comparisons to theirs.

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The answer is; His love is as charming as any of those who are praised by false comparisons.

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