He compares her voice to music as he, "loves to hear her speak, yet well [he] knows / [t]that music hath a far more pleasant sound" (Shakespeare 9 - 10), as no voice would be as pleasant as music, further ridiculing conventional love poetry. The speaker's tone changes in the final quatrain, as he likes the way he speaks but it doesn't sound as pleasant as the music. The speaker's appreciation for his lover is made evident, as his comparisons are not as harsh in the third quatrain compared to the first two quatrains. The flaws he describes almost begin to idealize his lover. As we progress through the sonnet, he begins to half-heartedly fascinate her beauty and we learn that for him, her flaws are what makes her beautiful and his love for his lover begins to reveal itself. From the way the speaker speaks in the final rhyming couplet we see that the speaker recognizes his true beauty as all his flaws are not enough to discourage him, as he lists all his imperfections but does not complain, rather he seems to admire them as his own “love as rare” (Shakespeare 13) as any “believed” (Shakespeare 13) false
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