The Sonnets of Shakespeare

The Network Layout of each sonnet shows how Shakespeare wove together words to build a sonnet. Each circle is a word and the lines show the direction (or link) to the next word. The color of the circle is an approximate indication of the Part of Speech while the color of the button on the other hand signifies how textually similar is the selected sonnet to the others (detected by an algorithm !). Hover over a button to view additional information. The sonnet currently selected - Sonnet 118 is most textually similar to Sonnet 105 (10.11 %). Low High

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Sonnet 118

Like as, to make our appetite more keen,

With eager compounds we our palate urge;

As, to prevent our maladies unseen,

We sicken to shun sickness when we purge;


Even so, being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness,

To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding;

And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness

To be diseas'd, ere that there was true needing.


Thus policy in love, to anticipate

The ills that were not, grew to faults assur'd,

And brought to medicine a healthful state

Which, rank of goodness, would by ill be cur'd;


But thence I learn and find the lesson true,

Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you.