Arrange the movements of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 in the order they occur.

1. Her eyes are nothing like the sun
2. Her lips are less red than coral, her breasts dun
3. Her breath reeks, her voice is less pleasing than music
4. She treads on the ground, not like a goddess
5. And yet my love is as rare as any she belied with false compare

Twelve lines demolish Petrarchan compliment item by item, and the couplet converts the demolition into a better compliment, the love is real precisely because it needs no false comparison. Only the English form allows this shape, because only it has a couplet capable of overturning what precedes it.