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Sonnet 130 "My mistress' eyes..." Sonnet 130 "My mistress' eyes..." by William Shakespeare is his rather lacklustre tribute to his mistress. The sonnet is clearly a parody of the conventional and traditional love sonnet that describes Shakespeare's experience of love and admiration for someone who has imperfections. Thus the poem being truly personal, it contains a universal truth: we can all still be admired even though we have imperfections. Throughout the poem, Shakespeare compares his mistress to a number of other beauties - and never in the lovers favour. In the first quatrain, Shakespeare gives the reader an account of his mistress' appearance: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. The opening of the poem is unconventional as the alliteration on the of 'My' and 'mistress' gives...

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