Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 is an anti-Petrarchan love poem that uses a mocking and realistic tone to subvert the exaggerated and idealized conventions of traditional sonnets. Instead of using grand metaphors to describe his beloved, the speaker lists her ordinary, non-ideal features, such as eyes not as bright as the sun and lips less red than coral, to argue that his love is more genuine because it is based on reality, not hyperbole. The poem concludes in the final couplet by asserting that despite her lack of conventional beauty, his love is as valuable as any "false compare" used by other poets.
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