Theme:        Time
Content:      A protest against destructive Time who kills everything in his path including the poet's subject, except his subject will live for evermore in the poet's verse.

• A graphic and powerful portrayal of Time as the killer of mortal and resurrected life.
• Earth is cited as a forced accomplice to time by being made to devour life just as Time does.
• Ou words are related to Time: Devouring, thou, devour.

• Time is omnipotent across the world, committing global crimes, but there is one thing that the poet forbids Time that is more awful than what he has already listed.
• The poet here is placing himself as more powerful than omnipotent Time by believing himself able to forbid Time of something.
• Time is now portrayed as not wholly destructive as it is capable of creating glad seasons as well as sorry ones.
• Ou words continue to relate to Time: thou, thou, heinous.

• Time's scythe, alluded to in earlier sonnets, is here denied access to age the subject's beauty as it is for on-passing to future generations.
• The subject's ageing is classified as more heinous a crime by Time than the killing of life as listed earlier.
• The subject is again cited as the pattern of all beauty.
• The paws and jaws of the lion and tiger in Q1 morph to Time drawing in Q3.
• Time's antique pen contrasts with the subject's pattern of beauty.
• Ou words continue to relate to Time: hours, course.

• A surprising counter to the previous quatrain by allowing Time to do its worse, as the subject's youth will be immortalised in the poet's verse.
• The only ou word in the couplet is now represented by the subject showing that the subject will beat Time: young.