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Sir Philip Sidney's 'Thou Blind Man's Mark' delves into the theme of desire, portraying it as a deceptive force against virtue and reason. The poem employs metaphors, personification, and a unique sonnet structure to articulate the struggle between rationality and temptation, suggesting virtue as the antidote to desire's destructive power.
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The poem is structured as a quatorzain, deviating from traditional sonnet forms, and is composed in iambic pentameter
Sidney uses metaphor, personification, and alliteration, along with rhetorical strategies like anaphora and antithesis, to underscore the conflict between reason and desire
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