Sonnet 018: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDEEEEEFFShall 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 | C |
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines | D |
And often is his gold complexion dimmed | E |
And every fair from fair sometime declines | D |
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed | E |
But thy eternal summer shall not fade | E |
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st | E |
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade | E |
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st | E |
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see | F |
So long lives this and this gives life to thee | F |
William Shakespeare
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