Sept/04-05/08

I like shakespeare.His poems are so emotional and well written.It gives relief to my heart.He never wrote with his pen but with his soul.

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, A

Thou art more lovely and more temperate,B

Rough winds do shake the darling 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 complexion dimmed,D

And every fair from fair sometime declines,C

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:D

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,E

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,F

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,E

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,F

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,G

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.G

What is being described in the sonnet?

The beauty of a boy that how lovely and adorable he is.

Identify literary techniques or devices?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?(similie)

What is the rhyme scheme of the sonnet? Indicate the rhyme scheme at the end of each line.

Done.

How many lines are in this sonnet?

14.

Critical thinking:

What is this sonnet about?
In the sonnet the poet describes the beauty of a girl/boy that how lovely she/he is.

What is the theme of this sonnet?

Beauty of a boy.

Paraphrase the sonnet line by line as you would to a friend. You can paraphrase it using slangs, spanglish, abbreviated spellings etc.