Analysis of Sonnet 107Not my fears, nor the prophetic soul of the wide world that dreams of things to come Can yet grant me control of my true love, supposed as the pledge of a The mortal moon has endured her eclipse, And the sad augurs mock their own omen; The uncertainties are now crowned assured, and peace proclaims olives of infinite age. Now with the drops of this balsamic time My love seems fresh; and Death subscribes to me, for in spite of himself I will sing this poor rhyme while he insults dull and silent tribes: And you will find your monument in this When the coats of arms of tyrants and the bronze tombs are worn away. important sonnet in the attempt to date the sonnets. Several words and phrases prompted readers to reflect on the year it was written, which ranged from 1588 to 1603. The main areas of focus are based on the following: 1) the "eclipse" of the "mortal moon", in line 5; 2) who are the "sad wishes" and their "omen", in verse 6; 3) allusion in lines 7 and 8, and whether "confin'd doom" refers to a certain event and what event it is. Of these, the most supported answers to 1 are: the Spanish Armada, 1588 (Butler, Hotson); the Queen's Grand Climateric, 1595-6 (Harrison); the Queen's illness in 1599-1600 (Chambers); The Essex Rebellion in 1601 (Tyler); the Queen's death in 1603 (e.g. Massey, Minto, Lee, Beeching); a lunar eclipse, 1595 (OF Emerson); or an eclipse of the Queen's favor (Conrad). The answers to the second problem are closely linked to the first, that is, with the addition of the fear of civil war following Elizabeth's death and also with the usual predictions of political (and other) disasters predicted by the eclipse. The third problem cites the trust seen in lines 7 and 8, and therefore the overcoming of the announced disasters. The fourth seems to refer to the imprisonment of some specific individual, e.g. Southampton, who was released after the accession of James I.1-4: 'Neither my fears nor the foreshadowing of worldly disasters can control the reach of my only love, supposing [invented by fears] that it is a "confin "d ruin." Lines 4 and 5 evoke a sense of doom, saying that everyone will eventually die, and reading line 6 with the emphasis on "best wishes" and "own" gives the sense that the prognosticators are mocking their own forecast due to such joyful weather..