What a great idea! This poem is especially important to me since I use it often to test the explicating skills of my freshmen intro to lit students. Michael, it's only important to know that the heal-all is USUALLY blue, not white. I don't want to intrude, but are either of you aware of his earliest version of this? Called "In White," it was published, maybe just written, some 30 or so years before this one. The contrast helps a newbie sonneteer like me have hope. I don't have a copy handy but will post it down the line.
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