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The Final Couplet

The Final Couplet

Auteur(s): Theo Cowan
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Join me, Theo Cowan, as I desperately attempt to work out what the hell William Shakespeare was going on about in all those sonnets. Don't worry, I create stupid little stories to accompany each one so you don't get too bored.Theo Cowan Art
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  • Shakespeare's Sonnet 136
    Jan 18 2026

    Shakespeare continues using his name over and over again in order to make a point. The final couplet in this one hits different.


    Sonnet 136

    If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
    Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy Will,
    And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;
    Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
    Will, will fulfil the treasure of thy love,
    Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
    In things of great receipt with ease we prove
    Among a number one is reckoned none:
    Then in the number let me pass untold,
    Though in thy store’s account I one must be;
    For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold
    That nothing me, a something sweet to thee:
    Make but my name thy love, and love that still,
    And then thou lovest me for my name is ‘Will’.


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    20 min
  • Shakespeare's Sonnet 135
    Jan 11 2026

    Shakespeare gets very sexual in this one. I've never heard so many innuendos in one poem - listener be warned!


    Sonnet 135

    Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy Will,
    And Will to boot, and Will in overplus;
    More than enough am I that vex thee still,
    To thy sweet will making addition thus.
    Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,
    Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?
    Shall will in others seem right gracious,
    And in my will no fair acceptance shine?
    The sea, all water, yet receives rain still,
    And in abundance addeth to his store;
    So thou being rich in Will add to thy Will
    One will of mine, to make thy large Will more.
    Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill;
    Think all but one, and me in that one Will.

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    23 min
  • Shakespeare's Sonnet 134
    Jan 4 2026

    Shakespeare and his mate have both fallen in love with the same woman. Nightmare!


    Sonnet 134

    So now I have confessed that he is thine,
    And I my self am mortgaged to thy will,
    Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine
    Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:
    But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
    For thou art covetous, and he is kind;
    He learned but surety-like to write for me,
    Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.
    The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
    Thou usurer, that put'st forth all to use,
    And sue a friend came debtor for my sake;
    So him I lose through my unkind abuse.
    Him have I lost; thou hast both him and me:
    He pays the whole, and yet am I not free.


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    21 min
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