Love Prevails “Idea: Sonnet 61” by Michael Drayton is a fourteen-line Petrarchan sonnet that dramatizes the conflicting emotions that arise from an intimate relationship that ends abruptly. After analyzing and doing several more in-depth readings, I learned that “Idea: Sonnet 61” is actually about the poet's conflicting emotions and feelings following a bad breakup. However, this was not an ordinary, casual relationship. It was a serious relationship, full of passion, which ended abruptly. It was a relationship that held great significance for the poet, whether it was his first wife or even his first love. I believe I can confidently determine and come to the conclusion that this poem is about the poet's love for his life and the conflicting feelings he experiences during and after their separation. In the first part of the poem, the author implies that he wants to disperse. and break up and that's absolutely the best thing for him to do. However, there are some things that suggest to the reader that this is not true and that they want to continue this relationship. For example, the phrase “kiss and part” (line 1) indicates to the reader the poet's confusion. When you break up with someone, you don't say goodbye. The parting usually ends with a handshake or even a hug, something much less intimate than a kiss. By using these words, the speaker unconsciously lets his inner emotions show. A hyphenation appears in the second line separating "No, I did" and "You don't get any more from me." This pause allows these two thoughts to be very powerful lines. They are also worded abruptly and intensely. “And I am happy, yes, happy, with all my heart…” (line 3...... middle of paper ...... to illustrate the simplices of breakup. The rhyme schemes present in the poem are equally methodical in the first seven lines and lines nine through twelve all end in perfect rhymes (“part” (line 1), “heart” (line 3), “me” (line 2) , "free" (line 4), etc.) However, in lines six and eight, thirteen and fourteen, eye rhymes are present. Eye rhymes are words that all end in the same letters. .For example, again and remember. The last two lines also have eye rhymes with words ending in "over". create the rhyme for the eyes and also constitute the word 'over?' they reconcile their love for each other..