That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang,
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the deathbed whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourished by
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long,
In a well-developed paragraph, discuss why the writer of this poem would have chosen the structural form of a sonnet to communicate his message. Be sure to include specific examples from
the poem to support your ideas. (If someone could just give me the answer, I don’t need the paragraph, just give me the why the writer choose this structural form)