Explication of "My Mistress' Eyes"

Shakespeare, a writer known for his use of sonnet, decides to parody this love-obsessed style in My mistress' eyes. Shakespeare reforms the quintessential Petrarchan subject of love by opening his poem with "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun." Instead of revering this mistress Shakespeare stakes the claim that her eyes don't shine anywhere as brilliantly as the sun. He continues his onslaught of her appearance with statements that her lips are "coral" not red and "her breasts are dun." A commonly accepted sign of beauty in Elizabethan times were gold threads spun into fanciful hairnets and Shakespeare references this and perverts it in this line "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head." Shakespeare goes so far as to call himself out on the hopelessly romantic tendency of poetry. In The Taming of the Shrew it is said "Such war of white and red within her cheeks!" (4.5.32) and in My mistress' eyes it's stated "I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks."
The poem experiences a shift with the line "I love to hear her speak" but is instantly qualified with "music hath a far more pleasing sound." It appears that despite the speaker's distaste for her outer looks they appears to be thawing in regards to cold remarks of unkindness. The closing of the poem reveals the narrator's true feelings for the mistress. They state "And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare." Here, Shakespeare is claiming that despite her vastly average appearance and lack of goddess-like qualities this woman still evokes a "love as rare." This rare love is "As any she belied with false compare," or as real as every woman who has been misrepresented by fairly ridiculous comparisons.