Sonnet 94

In the first eight lines of the sonnet, the speaker talks about those “that have the pow’r to hurt and will do none”. The person will fight temptation and not do the bad things they are capable of doing. Eventually, the person will be rewarded for this. The shift in this poem is quite obvious as it occurs in the third quatrain. The speaker shifts to talking about a flower. Summer treasures flowers but once the flower becomes contaminated, it is no better than a weed. The couplet states that sweet things that misbehave turn bad. The rhyme scheme in the last couplet is perfect and drives the point to close off the sonnet.