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Sonnet 18[edit]
by William Shakespeare[edit]
Sonnet 18, also referred to as Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? is one of the 154 famous sonnets written by British born playwright William Shakespeare. In this sonnet, the speaker compares his lover to the beautiful season of summer yet argues that the lover is more beautiful. However, the speaker suggests through the use of lexical choice that the lover is eternal unlike the season of summer. Sonnet 18 is written in the typical format of a Shakespearean sonnet, which consists of having an iambic pentameter of 14 lines which ends in a rhyming couplet.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date. 4
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often in his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; 8
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st. 12
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 14
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