In Elizabethan Age, the sonnets had advanced into a form with new metric and rhyme scheme that was departing from Petrarchan sonnets. Yet, Elizabethan sonnets still carried the tradition of Petrarchan conceit. Petrarchan conceit was a figure used in love poems consisting detailed yet exaggerated comparisons to the lover"s mistress that often emphasized the use of blazon. The application of blazon would emphasize more on the metaphorical perfection of the mistresses due to the natural objects were created by God, hence when the mistresses were better than nature, then there would be nothing better than the mistresses. Sonnet 130 written...
unique by implying that "I think my love s rare as any she belied with false compare."

Throughout the poem, the speaker described what his mistress was not but never actually accounted what she was like. Therefore, his mistress was only used as an imagistic character. Not only that, the speaker had not shown any passion to his mistress. From beginning to end, we did not receive a clear idea whether the speaker truly loved his mistress or not. It was more likely that he used his mistress as an image to express his feeling than left her alone.