Editing Shakespeare - Sonnets (section)

== '''6. Cognitive → Formal Map (Mini-Table)''' ==
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!Trait
!Formal Signature in Text
!Concrete Evidence (quote + location)
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|'''Monotropism'''
|Obsessive single-theme focus, motif loops
|''“One thing expressing, leaves out difference.”'' (Sonnet 105, l.7–8) – poet admits all his verse says the '''same one thing'''.
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|'''Hyper-systemizing'''
|List structures; logical argument frames
|''“And needy nothing trimm’d in jollity, / And purest faith unhappily forsworn…”'' (Sonnet 66, l.3–4) – '''ten lines in a row''' begin “And,” forming a structured '''catalog''' of ills.
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|'''Literalism / Pragmatics'''
|Anti-hyperbolic, plain descriptive language
|''“My mistress’ eyes are '''nothing like the sun'''; / Coral is far more red than her lips’ red.”''(Sonnet 130, l.1–2) – literal truth instead of expected metaphor.
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|'''Autistic Linguistic Density'''(ALD)
|Pun clusters; internal wordplay nets
|''“And '''Will''' to boot, and '''Will''' in overplus;”'' (Sonnet 135, l.2) – the word “Will” (name/desire) is repeated obsessively (13×), creating a private '''pun-network'''.
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|'''Local > Global Coherence'''
|Micro-tight units; loose sequence continuity
|'''Anaphora binds lines''' within Sonnet 66 (above), but topics shift abruptly between sonnets (e.g. lusty Sonnet 129 → mocking Sonnet 130 with no transition).
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|'''Affective Displacement'''
|Emotion channeled via structure & rhythm
|''“Day doth '''daily''' draw my sorrows longer, / And night doth '''nightly''' make grief’s length seem stronger.”'' (Sonnet 28, l.13–14) – the feeling of endless sorrow is conveyed through '''repetitive structure''' (“day daily… night nightly”) rather than emotive exclamation.
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|'''Identity Diffusion'''
|Blurring of self and other; shifting voice
|''“My friend and '''I are one'''.”'' (Sonnet 42, l.13) – the speaker explicitly '''merges identities'''; elsewhere the poetic “I” adopts drastically different personae (moralist vs. lover), indicating a fluid self-presentation.
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