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- # Sonnet 76
## Overview
Section 76 is a poem, part of a larger collection, dated to the early 17th century. It is a sonnet, a poetic form consisting of 14 lines, typically written in iambic pentameter.
## Context
This sonnet is contained within the chapter titled "[# SHAKES-PRARES](arke:01KG6S4CPZP73GPBKD2240HQV8)", which is part of the collection "[PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53](arke:01KG6NWQ2H2K4PGG7H4ZHYCZ3Y)". The text was extracted from the file "[pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt](arke:01KG6S2X2EBB305ENM00G16GWA)". It follows Sonnet 75 and precedes Sonnet 77.
## Contents
Sonnet 76 explores the theme of poetic originality and the poet's consistent focus on love as their subject matter. The speaker questions why their verse lacks novelty and variation, acknowledging that they "alwaies write of you, / And you and loue are still my argument." The sonnet concludes by comparing the cyclical nature of the sun to the poet's recurring theme of love, suggesting that even familiar words can be presented anew.
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VV Hy is my verse so barren of new pride?
So far from variation or quicke change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, euer the same,
And keepe inuention in a noted weed,
That euery word doth almost fel my name,
Shewing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O know sweet loue I alwaies write of you,
And you and loue are still my argument:
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending againe what is already spent:
For as the Sun is daily new and old,
So is my loue still telling what is told,
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