SONNET 18
Shall I comper thee to a summer's day? A
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B
Rough winds do shake the lovely buds of May, A
And summer's lease hath all too short a date: B
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, C
And often is his gold coplexion dimm'd; D
And every fair from fair sometime declines, C
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; D
But thy eternal summer shall not fade E
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; F
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, E
When in eternal lines time thou growest: F
So long as men can breath or eyes can see, G
So long lives this and this gives life to thee. G
All sonnets have 14 lines.
1-12 are alternate rhymes.
12-14 are a rhyming couplet.
Each line has 10 syllables(iambic pentameter)
Most of the sonnets are written about love
and nature(comparing the writers love to something beautiful).
1-4:1st idea+metaphor.
4-8: complicated+ metaphor.
8-12:twist.
12-14:summarise.
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B
Rough winds do shake the lovely buds of May, A
And summer's lease hath all too short a date: B
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, C
And often is his gold coplexion dimm'd; D
And every fair from fair sometime declines, C
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; D
But thy eternal summer shall not fade E
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; F
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, E
When in eternal lines time thou growest: F
So long as men can breath or eyes can see, G
So long lives this and this gives life to thee. G
All sonnets have 14 lines.
1-12 are alternate rhymes.
12-14 are a rhyming couplet.
Each line has 10 syllables(iambic pentameter)
Most of the sonnets are written about love
and nature(comparing the writers love to something beautiful).
1-4:1st idea+metaphor.
4-8: complicated+ metaphor.
8-12:twist.
12-14:summarise.