Read sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare. Analyse the following aspects of the poem; form, imagery, diction and voice, paying attention to the way in which these features contribute to the poem.

Sonnet 73 develops the theme of aging and death through richly eloquent imagery condensed into a tightly packed form. The love between Shakespeare and his ward, to who the poem is dedicated, is closely demonstrated throughout the poem and finalised with the final epigram.
The sonnet can split into three quatrains with an ending rhyming couplet, with each line conforming to the pattern of iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme followed is that, which was introduced by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. It follows the following pattern; ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The quatrains serve to compact each of the…