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Sonnet 5
Sonnet 5 is part of the initial section of Shakespeare's collection of sonnets that focus on a young man. It is often considered as a pair with Sonnet 6 as the final line of Sonnet 5 leads directly onto the first line of the following sonnet, perhaps intended to be read as an entire work.

It uses the cycle of seasons to despair on the effect that they will have upon the young man's beauty. The imagery of the advancement of years likens the turning of seasons to the progression of Human life. In this section of poems there is a consistent emphasis upon Human aging

Those hours, that with gentle work did frame

The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,

Will play the tyrants to the very same

And that unfair which fairly doth excel;

For never-resting time leads summer on

To hideous winter, and confounds him there;

Sap checked with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone,

Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:

Then were not summer's distillation left,

A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,

Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,

Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was:

But flowers distilled, though they with winter meet,

Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.