“But as I think of you (dear friend) all losses are mended and sorrows end” (lines 15-16). This is an excerpt from the master himself, William Shakespeare, in “Sonnet 30” also known as “When at the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought.” Like all of his works, this sonnet requires a lot of interpretation due to the Old English to understand anything about it. “Sonnet 30” is written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of “abab/cdcd/efef/gg.” The sonnet is a lyric poem because it uses the first person, which means there is a signal that speaks. The meaning itself is simple; albeit after quite a bit of deciphering; the speaker looks back, remembers all the things that happened to him, but more specifically looks at the things that were not good and remembers how the things that brought great pain “piled up” more and more. However, in the last two lines of the verse, Shakespeare pulls out his classic trump card with a positive ending in which the speaker describes how thinking of someone dear brings great joy to the pain felt. Overall, the sonnet is gentle, passive, and even dark to some extent. A variety of poetic devices, particularly alliteration and metaphor, are used to heavily convey the theme of love lost and found by relying on a similar state of mind as the speaker, grieving a sad memory but feeling joy in the future. The title is where it all begins, "When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought", the title itself creates the atmosphere where the reader can almost feel as if they are being taken back into their own thoughts and memories. This single line helps set up the rest of the sonnet, the first line comes from the title starting again with the line “When at the sessions or...... middle of the paper ......and in many ways. In an explanatory sense, it can be interpreted that whenever the speaker thinks of someone dear to him, all the losses disappear and the sadness goes away. Shakespeare was the master of language and could manipulate words to suit his needs. In "Sonnet 30", he uses his words and many poetic devices to portray a dark, sorrowful and painful mood which has an opposite ending in the last couplet. It is precisely Shakespeare's words in this poem that reflect the theme of lost and found love which in everyone's life can be seen in love life as "the one who got away" or in losing something dear and finding it again in a way different. way. It is this theme that guides how we grieve the things dear to us that we lose and how we overcome that resentment by finding something or someone similar or the same as what we once had or have lost..