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Analysis of Sonnet 107   Not mine bear fears, nor the precursory soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposd as forfeit to a condind doom. The deathlike moon hath her eclipse endurd, And the sad augurs mock their own presage Incertainties now crown themselves assurs, nd peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy eon My love looks fresh and Death to me subscribes, Since spite of him Ill lime in this poor rhyme While he insults oer dull and speechless tribes And thou in this shalt find thy monument When tyrants crests and tombs of brass are spent.     This has been an important sonnet in trying to date the sonnets. Several words and phrases have prompted readers to ponder on the division it was written, ranging from 1588 to 1603. The main areas of concentration rely on the following 1) the eclipse of the mortal moon, in line 5 2)who the sad augurs are and their pre sage, in line 6 3) anyusion in lines 7 and 8, and if confind doom is in refernce to a certain event and which event that is. Of these, the most supported responses to 1 are the Spanish Armada, 1588 (Butler, Hotson) the Queens Grand change of life , 1595-6 (Harrison) the Queens illness in 1599-1600 (Chambers) Essexs rebellion in 1601 (Tyler) the Queens death in 1603 (eg. Massey, Minto, Lee, Beeching) a lunar eclipse, 1595 (O.F. Emerson) or an eclipse of the Queens favour (Conrad). Answers to the second problem relate about with the first, that is, with the addition of a fear of civil war as a result of Elizabeths death and also the usual forecasts of political (and other) disasters that were forecasted from the eclipse. The third problem cites the authorization seen in lines 7 and 8,a dn therefore the overshoot of the proclaimed disasters. The fourth seems to refer to the imprisonment of some specific individual, eg. Southampton, who was released after James I accession to the thr one.   1-4 Neither my own fears nor the foreshadowing of worldly disasters can control the extent of my only love, supposing invented by fears that it is a confind doom. Lines 4 and 5 evoke a sense of death, saying that all will eventually die, and reading line 6 with stresses on augurs and own gives the sense that the prognosticators jeer their own predictions due to time being so joyous.