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TIME SONNET NO.19                     Devouring Time  , blunt thou the lion's paws,                   And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;                   Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,                   And burn the long-liv'd phoenix in her blood;                   Make glad and sorry seasons, as thou fleets,                   And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,                   To the wide world, and all her fading sweets;           B       But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:         o C A     0 CArve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,           N       N or draw no lines there with thine antique pen;                   Him in thy course untainted do allow,                   For beauty's pattern to succeeding men.                     Yet, do thy worst ,old Time: despite thy wrong,                    My love  shall in my verse ever live young.

 

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            Note the repetition of the following words, we find-time,
          time, time, thy hours, thy course, thy worst, thy wrong, my
          love, my love.
  
          11th Line.   " Untainted do allow "-permit to remain 
                                uninjured
                  Here Bacon addresses time which destroys most animals
          and implores time not to commit the crime of destroying the
          work of his lifetime, his love (the plays), but allow them to
          survive for the benefit of succeeding nations and writes that
          whatever time may do-his love (the plays) will live for ever
          young.
  
   
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