When examining Shakespeare's sonnets, one comes to realize just how important life and the passage of time are. Like the passage of time, life, too, passes by. Even though, they both have their own entity, the passage of time affects life in a way that it changes the physical appearance. Change is a major element that life and time both share as they pass by. That is what Shakespeare wants to stress. He uses many "tools" to express the similarities and differences between the passage of life and the passage of time. All kinds of figures of speech are at his disposal and he doesn't hesitate to use any of them where he sees fit.

This sonnet is neatly organized following the structure of the Shakespearean sonnet, quatrain/quatrain/quatrain/couplet, and its common rhyme scheme abab,cdcd,efef,gg. The placement of the sonnet as sonnet 60 caries...