Sonnet #55

The speaker is telling about how a person will live on through this poem that they are being written about. It says that the the person being written about lives on past princes, stones that crumble with time (lines three and four), wars, and fires. Nothing can destroy this person as long as the poem keeps them alive. Despite death, they will live on through words. It says this when the speaker rights, "The living record of your memory. 'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity." The speaker is saying in the couplet that the person will live on in poetry and through the lovers who read this. I think the words "monuments" and "contents" in lines one and three are examples of sight rhyme.