Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
-William Shakespeare
Sonnet- 18
About the writer
William Shakespeare was the famous dramatics and poet the 16 century. He wrote 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and comedies, tragedies etc.This sonnet was published in 1609.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate,
Rough winds do snake the darling buds of May,
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his to gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy internal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fear thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wand' rest in his shade,
When in internal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breath or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this lives life to thee.
Rhyme scheme- abab-cdcd-efef-gg
Theme - The theme of love
Figure of speech
Metaphor- (sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,)
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