In sonnet 130, Shakespeare is describing his mistress. Unlike his previous sonnets with the fair young, the OOP in this sonnet is not receiving that loving and admiration that the fair youth had received. "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,/ Coral is far more red then her lips' red;/" he is saying to the women that she is not the most beautiful of women. Through out the rest of the sonnet the poet continues to tell the lady that "in some perfumes is there more delight,/ than in the breath that from my mistress reeks." In the end of the sonnet Shakespeare seems to conclude that "by Heaven, I think my love is rare/ as any she belied with false compare," he is saying to her that his love really isn't that special because women are often compared to things more beautiful then they are.

In Sonnet 131, Shakespeare seems to be almost contradicting himself with the way that he speaks of the OOP. The poet is disagreeing with what other people are saying about the women's ability to make a man love her because she is not a beauty. "Yet in good faith some say that thee behold,/ Thy face hath not the power to make love groan:/ To say they err I dare not be so bold,/ Although I swear it to myself alone." Shakespeare is admitting that though she is not beautiful, she has cause him to love her in some sense. "A thousand groans, but thinking on thy face,/ One on another's neck do witness bear/ Thy black is fairest in my judgment's place." He has had some enjoyment with her and he is not judging her by they way that she looks but by the way that she acts, "IN nothing art thou black save in thy deeds."

Sonnet 133, it seems that there is a love triangle going on between the fair youth and the dark lady and Shakespeare. The dark lady my have some sort of hold over the poet and she is involved with the fair youth as well. The poet is jealous that the fair youth has been with the dark lady and he is want the fair youth to stop. "Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward,/ But then my friend's heart let my poor heart bail." He became involved with the dark lady for some reason and his heart has been enslaved. He has learned that the fair youth, who would be his savior, has also been enslaved by the dark lady.