The first insight of the year happened today. it’d been brewing for a few days as i tried once again to create another memory system for the sonnets. Seeing as I think the closest thing to knowing Shakespeare we have is the actual quarto of 1609, that is the starting point.
The idea is to follow the way they are on these pages in the quarto. b1 is the first page and holds the Title-Page and sonnet 1 up to sonnet 2.12. b2 is page two and starts with 2.13 up to 7.9, b3 is page 3 and starts with 7.10-12.6. The next b4 is the final page as the sheet of paper these pages are on will be folded into four, hence quarto.
the next sheet of paper is labelled c1 which starts with 17.3 up to sonnet 21 which is the first whole sonnet and ends the page. naturally the beginning of the next page will also have a complete sonnet which is 22 which goes up to 26.1.
The pattern now emerges that every 21st sonnet will be a pair of whole sonnets alternately ending one page and starting another.
d2 and d3 hold 45 and 46.
e3 and e4 hold 69 and 70. while f4 ends the sheet of paper with 93.
The g sheet starts with 94 and the pattern is repeated.
h1 and h2 hold 117 and 118.
i2 and i3 hold 141 and 142. and skipping j we move to
the final sheet with k1 starting with 151.3 and logically ending with 154 along with another Title-Page and Dedication on its verso side.
Now i decided for the lark why not see if the word that starts these whole sonnets if they start the page and the last word of these whole sonnets if they ended the page make any sense. just for a laugh!
Imagine my surprise when these 14 words came out.
From sell My sad Mine.
grow That show.
They love Like pain.
Love love
Rotflmao. The bold and punctuation is obviously mine but the capitalisations are his, not that that matters in vocalisation anyway.
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