an English conspirator and poet. He is sometimes erroneously referred to as Charles. Tichborne's Elegy (his rhyming, final soliloquy poem), uses two favorite Renaissance figures of speech - antithesis and paradox - to crystallize the tragedy of the poet's situation. Often a Renaissance poem will begin with antithesis to establish circumstances and reveal its themes through paradox. The Elegy is remarkable for being written almost entirely in monosyllables.
