The Good-Morrow

Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.

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The third stanza begins with an image of the lovers gazing into one another's eyes. They each see their own faces reflected in the other's eyes, like a mirror, and they can see that their faces are full of "true" and honest love (line 16). This image echoes stanza two's idea of each lover as a world that the other can be immersed in--but it adds a sense of connection between them. This connectedness sets up the poem's final contention, that the two lovers are like the hemispheres of a single planet.