Here he anticipates his own death: "No longer mourn for me when I am dead /. In this and the next three sonnets, the poet's mood becomes increasingly morbid.
And an example of iambic pentameter in this sonnet is, “That I in our sweet thoughts would be forgot.” The rhyme scheme in this sonnet is ABABCDCDEFEFGG. The volta in Sonnet 71 is “O, if, I say you look upon this verse.” This line changes the thesis into the antithesis. When he recalls, “But let your love even with my life decay, Lest the wise world should look into your moan, And mock you with me after I am gone.” These lines are telling the youth to let his love decay with his body, so that the malicious people in the world do not pry into his grief and use their relationship to mock him after the poet is dead.
The poet does not even want him to say his name, which he thinks is insignificant. The antithesis of Sonnet 71 is that he wants the youth’s love for him rot away with his dead body. These lines mean that the poet does not want his youth remember who wrote these lines than let him be upset in thinking that he is gone from the world, he thinks in disgusting, forever. The poet said, “Nay, if you read this line, remember not, The hand that writ it for i love you so, That in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe. The poet wants him to announce to the world that he has died and moved on. The surly sounding bell is a bell that is rung for the deceased as a tribute to his life. The thesis of sonnet 71 is that the poet wants his love, which is his youth, to mourn for him bur not after the “surly sounding bell”.
The poet is referring to the youth in himself when he tells him not to grieve when he is dead.
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