What is the primary purpose of the couplet in this sonnet?
Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
To speak of that which gives thee all thy might
Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?
Return, forgetfal Muse, and straight redeem
In gentle numbers time so idly spent;
Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem
And gives thy pen both skill and argument.
Rise, restive Muse, my love's sweet face survey,
If Tme have any wrinkle graven there;
lf any, be a satire to decay,
And make Time's spoils despised every vwhere.
Give my love fame faster than Tìme wastes life
So thou prevent'st his seythe and erooked knife.
O The purpose is to show the poet's belief in a grim
reaper who wields a scythe.
make the poem a sonnet.
time described in the three quatrains.
speaker's beloved become famous and live forever.
NOThe purpose is to complete the 14 lines required to
O The purpose is to add a twist to the ideas about
O The purpose is to inspire a poem that will help the
-"Sonnet 100,"
WElliam Shakespeare