Object of Homosexual Desire

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 20

A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted 
Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion;
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,         5
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling,
Much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,                10
And by addition me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.

Literary Devices Used
- anaphora (9/11),
- idiom (6)
- paronomasia (7, 13)
- personification (1, 10, 12)
- zeugma (2 - 1/3/5)

The speaker in this sonnet addresses his fancy for a particular man, much to his dismay. The opening octet gives reasons for his desires and adoration through Shakespeare's utilization of zeugma, with the verb in line 2 and the linking items in lines 1, 3, and 5.