Sixteenth-century poet George Gascoigne uses varying intensities of images and emphasized diction in his carefully structured form of poetry, "For That He Looked Not Upon Her”, to explain his reasoning behind his inability to look the woman he loves in the face. The standard sonnet form is well used to support Gascoigne’s defense of his actions. This poem follows the “ABAB” rhyme scheme, has even iambic pentameter and ends with a rhyming couplet which puts emphasis on his argument. The speaker begins
mirage in one’s mind. In the poem “For That He Looked Not upon Her”, by George Gascoigne, a man holds his head declivous, as he troubles to look into the eyes of his beloved. In this confrontation he tells tales to her of the misery she has truly placed on him. Through his use of various devices Gascoigne develops a complex attitude in the speaker. The speaker conveys his emotional wound through the use of two metaphors paralleling the events he has endured, beginning with one about a mouse