the octave and the resolution appears in the sestet, and as in most English/Shakespearean sonnets it is clear that the speaker has yet to establish his own opinion and position on his sonnet form, which can be generalized to his beliefs on life and death.
             Just by reading the first quatrain alone it is clear that the speaker is using alliteration to further emphasize his inner turmoil. The speaker uses alliteration in two ways. He uses it to reinforce his idea that time is diminishing and death is drawing near. In the first quatrain he uses hard sounds in words such as ¡°play,¡± ¡°appoint,¡± ¡°pilgrimage,¡± ¡°pace,¡± and ¡°point¡± to indicate the difficult journey he has traveled. The repetition of ¡°last¡± in the first quatrain shows that time is slowly depleting and death is silently creeping up on the speaker. The second way that the speaker uses alliteration is to lessen the great fear and dread he feels towards the idea of death. He uses mostly plosives in the first quatrain, but in the second quatrain the use of alliteration is predominantly of sibilants, as if he has yet to make up his mind. The speaker ¡°shall sleep a space.¡± Here he has likened the idea of death with the state of sl
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