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Units of Time
Love is the primary theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, but usually in the context of Time; Love may be eternal, but all things change over Time.
The numbers and contents of five sonnets seem to encompass the five primary Jacobean intervals of time.
There is one other related “interval” that may be observed. This is the interval in music. More than any other art form, Music is mysterious because it is both time-based and it can communicate eternity. The primary musical interval is the octave:
These numerical alignments don't seem to relate to the Dedication, i.e. the unit of time is not present in the Dedication grid. However, there is one exception; ETERNITIE is at the very centre of the Dedication grid and occurs at letter number 64.
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