Six similarities:
- Love through years (the passing time)
- Love will live on them, no matter what happens with their lives
- 'Live' in the way that love will survive
- 'Death' love will last until they die
- Uses 'time' as imagery and as figurative language
- Use of metaphor:
In the letter, lines 11 and 12 meaning to have sex
In 55 Sonnet, But you shall shine bright... (Shakespeare compares memory to a brightly shining light)
Six differences:
- In the letter, the use of allusion (Chôkan is a village in Japan)
- In 55 Sonnet, the use of rhyme and alliteration
- The Sonnet starts with a negative adverb 'not'.
- The letter has more lines than the Sonnet.
- The Sonnet scheme is made of 3 quatrains and ends with a couplet. Its rhyme scheme is ababcdcdefefgg
- The letter has a tittle
- The letter is in the first person (the wife)
