He's not prepared to do that, preferring instead to enhance his mistress's beauty, deepen his love for her. Not only is the speaker being blatantly honest in this sonnet, he is being critical of other poets who put forward false claims about woman. Analyze with examples how Sonnet 130 illustrates this theme.
So to the final couplet, a full rhyming affirmation of the speaker's love for the woman, his mistress. A common theme is to not judge a book by its cover. well, what do you know, my mistress actually walks on the ground. This is nitty gritty reality Shakespeare is selling the reader. She hasn't a musical voice she uses her feet to get around. The third quatrain introduces the reader to the mistress's voice and walk and offers up no extraordinary claims. 'Sonnet 130' becomes more abstract as it progresses.
The blazon tradition is a poetic trope in which the speaker fragments his lover in order to describe each part as individually perfecteyes as bright as the sun, lips as red as a rose, skin as white as snow, etc. Certainly in the context of the previous line-some perfume-the latter meaning seems more likely. See in text (Sonnet 130) This poem famously represents an anti-blazon. Some say that in Shakespeare's time the word reeks meant to emanate or rise, like smoke. Known throughout his body of work as the dark lady, this woman is seemingly torn apart by her apparent lack of classic conformity to the conventions of the time. Her breath reeks, which may mean stinks or may mean rises. In My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun (also known more commonly as Sonnet 130), Shakespeare rejects the idea of idolizing his love’s beauty. It is clear from these 28 sonnets that the speaker was deeply in love with this woman, yet torn emotionally because she lied, was deceitful and cruel. So 'Sonnet 130' belongs to a subset of poems that delve into this relationship, expressing pain, delight, anguish and playfulness. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets in total, with sonnets 127–154 addressed to the mysterious 'Dark Lady', a possible real-life lover of the poet.
True love isn't reliant on some illusive notion of perfect beauty.