Answer:
The couplet explains the ideas exposed in the first three quatrains.
Step-by-step explanation:
The couplet explains the ideas exposed in the first three quatrains.
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak. Yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
As it is possible to appreciate in this Shakespeare’s poem, he uses comparison as a way of metaphor just to explain the reader how the lover feels about his beloved one, it is a description of how love feels like, compared to some elements present in nature such as the sun, the coral and the white snow that are implicitly mentioned again in the last couplet.