Yet what is this but a species of pun, a verbal consonance? IX.THAT THE WORST PUNS ARE THE BEST

In those days even a pun might be a serious thing: witness the play in the last stanza on the words son and sunnot a mere pun, for the Son of the Father is the Sun of Righteousness: he is Life and Light.

Generally there is a subtile coincidence between his meaning and what the sound of the pun signifies, and thus the pun becomes an amusing or illustrative image, or a most emphatic and striking condensation of his thought.

A Pun is a sole object for reflection (vide my aids to that recessment from a savage state)it is entire, it fills the mind: it is perfect as a Sonnet, better.