“But while I think of you (dear friend), all losses are restored and sorrows end” (lines 15-16). This is an excerpt from the master himself, William Shakespeare, in “Sonnet 30” also known as “When of Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought”. Like all of his works, this sonnet requires a lot of interpretation due to Old English to be able to understand everything. “Sonnet 30” is written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of “abab/cdcd/efef/gg”. The sonnet is a lyric poem because it is used in the first person, which means there is a speaker signal. The meaning itself is simple; but after a good decryption; the speaker looks back, remembers all the things that happened to him, but looks specifically at the things that weren't good and remembers how things "piled up" more and more, this which caused him great sadness. However, in the last two lines of the verse, Shakespeare pulls out his classic trump card with a positive ending where the speaker describes how thinking about someone dear to him brings great joy over the sorrow he has felt. Overall, the sonnet is gentle, passive, and even dark to some extent. A variety of poetic devices, including alliteration and metaphor, are used to strongly convey a theme of love lost and found by drawing on a mood similar to that of the speaker, afflicted by painful memories while feeling joy for the future. The title is where it all begins, “As for Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought”, the title itself creates a mood in which the reader can almost feel like they are being taken back into their own thoughts and memories. This single line helps set up the rest of the sonnet, the first line derives from the title starting again with the line "When the sessions o...... middle of paper ......e in several ways. In an explanatory sense, it can be interpreted that whenever the speaker thinks of someone dear to him, all losses disappear and sadness goes away. Shakespeare was the master of language and he could manipulate words to suit his needs. In “Sonnet 30,” he uses his words and many poetic devices to portray a dark, sad, sad mood that has an opposite ending in the last verse. It is Shakespeare's very words in this poem that reflect the theme of love lost and found which in anyone's life could be seen in a love life as "the one that got away" or the loss of something something dear but finding it in another path. It is this theme that determines how we grieve the things we lose that are dear to us and how we overcome this grievance by finding something or someone similar or identical to what we once had or lost..