Theme:     Clouded Love.
Content:   An analogy of the sun being obscured by clouds just as the subject is taken away from the author's view by base individuals.

• Beautiful description of the sun's shining effect on mountains, meadows and streams.
• Pun in Flatter as in flattering the mountains and flattening them.
• Personification of the sun in assigning it both eye and face.

• The clouds are portrayed as an ugly and shaming disgrace that robs the world of the sun's beauty and effects as it scurries westwards to set. The clouds are the absolute basest.
• The clouds are permitted to do this though: the sun literally permits the clouds to besmirch his face.
• Having used the English face in Q1, the French visage is used in Q2.

• The sun briefly shines before being masked by cloud.
• First explicit reference in the sonnet to sun and in the possessive sense with my indicating that the sun is now an analogy for the author's human subject with whom the author has spent less time than he would have liked.
• Possible reference to the subject being an Earl via early.
• Possible reference to the author's deceased son Hamnet in my sun particularly as he was "but one hour mine", i.e. died early at aged 11.
  
• No fault is assigned to the subject, who is metaphorically linked to the sun. It is the clouds who are the culprits.
• Clearly sets the subject as high in the sky and the author down below on earth. Equally, the ugly clouds are higher than the author too, up with the sun/subject.

• "Suns of the world are able to stain (or be stained) if heaven's sun can too."
• Confirms that the fault is not with the subject which does not reduce his love one whit.