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Analysis of Sonnet 107   Not mine own fears, nor the divinatory soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come faecal matter yet the lease of my true love control, Supposd as forfeit to a condind doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endurd, And the sad augurs mock their own prognostic Incertainties now crown themselves assurs, nd peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this nigh balmy time My love looks fresh and Death to me subscribes, Since spite of him Ill fluxing lime in this poor rhyme While he insults oer deadening and speechless tribes And thou in this shalt find thy monument When tyrants crests and tombs of brass be spent.     This has been an important sonnet in trying to date the sonnets. Several course and phrases have prompted readers to ponder on the year it was written, ranging from 1588 to 1603. The main areas of concentration deposit on the following 1) the eclipse of the mortal moon, in stock 5 2)who the sad augurs are and their presage, in line 6 3) allusion in lines 7 and 8, and if confind doom is in refernce to a certain event and which event that is. Of these, the more or less supported responses to 1 are the Spanish Armada, 1588 (Butler, Hotson) the Queens Grand Climacteric , 1595-6 (Harrison) the Queens nausea 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 occupation relate closely 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 confidence 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 throne.   1-4 Neither my own fears nor the foreshadowing of worldly disasters can control the result 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 delinquent to time being so joyous.