A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

• Opening Stanza: "As virtuous men pass mildly away,  

  And whisper to their souls to go,"
• First use of a Trochee: "Moving of th’ earth brings harms and fears, 

  Men reckon what it did, and meant; 

  But trepidation of the spheres, 

  Though greater far is innocent.” 
• A break in stoicism: "Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss"
• Conceit: "If they be two, they are two so

  As stiff twin compasses are two;"
• Ending: "Thy firmness makes my circle just,

  And makes me end where I begun."
• Physical love: "Dull sublunary lovers' love

  (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit

  Absence, because it doth remove

  Those things which elemented it."
• Ice to Water: " So let us melt, and make no noise,

  No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempest move;"