These three poems set up an interesting scene. There is this new character, the dark mistress, added into the mix. In poem 130 Shakespeare describes this woman to us as being ugly in some standards, with "eyes nothing like the sun" and "black wires growing from her head". The description of this ugly woman doesn't stop until the couplet "And yet, by heaven, i think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare." With this i think Shakespeare is commenting a little on what beauty is. Throughout the poem he uses comparisons of things used to describe pretty women, i.e. eyes-sun, coral-lips, hair-golden wire, roses-cheeks and at the end makes a point that no woman actually has those features, his love for this lady is as rare as this perfect woman described. The next poem, 131, goes on to say once again that this woman is not very attractive, and possibly a cruel person? "Thou art as tyrannous so as thou art". We even hear that people talk about this woman and say "Thy face hath not the power to make love groan." But then Shakespeare tells us that "thy black(ugliness) is fairest in my judgment's place." Then with the couplet kind of says she deserves these remarks because of her cruelty. Then in the last poem, 133, We get a little bit of a scenario. Shakespeare talks of a good friend that this lady is also being cruel to, even more cruel to than Shakespeare."for that deep wound it gives my friend and me!" Evidently because of this Shakespeare is forsaken and the only way to reconcile this is for Shakespeare to sacrifice himself to be "Imprisoned in thy steel bosoms ward" if she lets his friend go and lets his "heart be his guard." There might be some love triangle going on here.