"My mistress' eyes" by William Shakespeare: Tone

        In William Shakespeare's poem "My mistress' eyes," he uses a different kind of tone for a love poem.  Instead of being affectionate it seems in the first twelve lines that the speaker is insulting the mistress.  The speaker continuously says less than desirable things about his mistress until the last two lines.  The speaker even goes as far to say, "I love to hear her speak, yet well I know/That music hath a far more pleasing sound," (Shakespeare, 885).  The speaker also comments on the mistress' eyes, lips, skin, hair, cheeks, breath, and voice.  In the first twelve lines, he only says bad things about the woman.  But finally he says that his love for her is very rare and true.  The speaker says that she may believe all the things he has said but that he loves her very much.