Topics in
| 8 | harmony in married life and music | |
| 12 | procreation | "When I do count the clock" |
| 18 | art | "Shall I compare thee?" |
| 19 | time | "Devouring time" |
| 29 | discouragement | "When in disgrace" |
| 40 | love vs. friendship | "Take all my loves, love" |
| 55 | eternizing | "Nor marble" |
| 64 | mutability | |
| 73 | death | "That time of year" |
| 94 | aristocracy and power | "They that have power to hurt" |
| 116 | friendship | "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" |
| 129 | love and desire | "Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame" |
| 130 | anti-Petrarchan blazon | "My mistress' eyes" |
| 140 | deceit | "Be wise as thou art cruel" |
| 144 | heavenly and earthly love | "Two loves I have, of comfort and despair" |
| 148 | love's blindness |