Theme:     Young Man
Content:   A critical sonnet of the subject (who refuses to father children). Negative characteristics are ascribed to the subject who takes what nature has freely given and uses them in cold, calculated, transactionalised legalese.

• “Why do you not properly leave legacy of your beauty?”
• why dost thou directly questions the subject's reasons for behaving in the way he does.
• Financial terminology introduced by thrift and spend.

• “Beauty is not constant, but transient. It is only loaned before it is taken back.”
• Counterpoint in the rhyme between what the subject spends and what Nature lends.
• Financial terminology continues with bequest, lend, and lends.

• “So why do you abuse this temporary privilege?”
• why dost thou again directly questions the subject's reasons for behaving in the way he does.
• This is a us sonnet employing several words that contain us that emphasise the subject's use of things for his own selfish advantage: beauteous...abuse...bounteous

• “Why do you not make better use of your assets instead of wasting them for no return?”
• Rhyme of give with live suggests the subject should “give life”.
• why dost thou again directly questions the subject's reasons for behaving in the way he does.
• The rhyme of use and abuse makes clear the subject's shortcoming.
• Financial terminology continues with usurer and sum of sums.
• us alliteration continues: usurer...use

• “You only deceive yourself by confining your beauty to yourself.”
• having traffic with thyself alone is a remarkably direct statement referring to the subject's masturbation.
• The criticism is softened by the inclusion of terms such as sweet self.
• Possible pun on this sonnet's number 4 in For.

• “When you die, what will you leave behind?”
• Financial terminology continues with the concept of an audit.
• The previous 3 why dost thou questions are now succeeded by a final what canst thou question; a question centred on what the subject can leave behind, rather than take for himself.

• “Your unused beauty will die with you.”
• Unused links back to unthrifty in Q1.
• Financial terminology concludes with executor.
• The using of Nature's gifts that the subject has indulged in earlier in the sonnet is now contrasted with the fact that his beauty has actually been unused.
• us alliteration concludes: unused...must...used.