Sonnet 31 addresses the moon in a type of personification called pathetic fallacy. Personification through pathetic fallacy is used only for nature (strict personification is used for nature, objects, like balls and bats, and abstractions, like Love and Death). The sonneteer describes the thus personified moon as being slow, silent and pale, weary and melancholy. He recognizes in the moon the same afflictions as those that exist in himself; he feels the moon and he are kindred spirits