In this sonnet, the speaker describes a powerful love for someone with no personal merits. which lines describe this puzzling ability in the speaker's beloved to control his reasoning faculties? sonnet 150 by william shakespeare [o! from what power hast thou this powerful might, with insufficiency my heart to sway? ] to make me give the lie to my true sight, and swear that brightness doth not grace the day? whence hast thou this becoming of things ill, [that in the very refuse of thy deeds there is such strength and warrantise of skill, that, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds? ] [who taught thee how to make me love thee more,] the more i hear and see just cause of hate? o! though i love what others do abhor, with others thou shouldst not abhor my state: if thy unworthiness raised love in me, [more worthy i to be beloved of thee.] !