1. The speaker of the poem is writing a sonnet, and his sonnet talks about the structure of sonnets which consist of fourteen lines that rhyme and are written in iambic pentameter, and the content of sonnets which is usually love. 2. The speaker seems to address a situation in the poem, through a figurative way introducing Petrarch himself and his muse Laura, which stands as a symbol of the speaker "putting down his pen  to show Laura how much he loves her through actions rather than a sonnet. The appropriate audience of the poem would be for authors that need their muses, the ones they love to help them. 3. The word persona is applicable because the speaker explores the traits of a sonnet, the complications and the resolution. 4. The structure of the poem appears as a typical free-verse poem, but it does share some qualities of a Petrarchan sonnet, but it doesn't have regular rhyme scheme or meter so it doesn't exemplify a true Petrarchan sonnet. 5. The main theme the poem is the speaker stating that the old sonnets all have the same content and theme, namely love, and that every sonnet, that stands for a declaration of love for someone cannot make more of difference. 6. The tone of the poem started off as fairly humorous, through the speaker's comparisons between similar extremities to the point that they were hyperboles, but in the last stanza the tone becomes more serious because the speaker exposes his honest feeling about his own gift in comparison to his mother's gifts. 7. In the poem, the speaker uses personification of "launching a little ship across love's storm tossed seas  to address love, or the complications that come with love. 8. The speaker states a religious reference in "one for every station of the cross , which alludes to the fourteen Stations of the Cross in Catholicism. 9. In the poem, the "iambic bongos  are iambs,, which is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, and while the