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Sonnet 18

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is one of one hundred fifty four poems of fourteen lines

written in Iambic Pentameter. These sonnets exclusively employ the rhyme scheme, which has

come to be called the Shakespearean Sonnet. The sonnets are composed of an octet and sestet

and typically progress through three quatrains to a concluding couplet. It also contains figurative

language and different poetic devices used to create unique effects in his sonnets.

Shakespeare's sonnets consist of words constructed in a certain manner or form, thoughts,

emotion and poetic devices. One way to interpret the sonnet is to think of "thee" that

Shakespeare is referring to as a person. Following that line of thought the sonnet could read that

Shakespeare is in love with someone who is consistently beautiful. He tries to compare this

person to summer but summer is not as beautiful or constant. This person in Shakespeare's eyes

will never grow old and ugly and not even Death can say that his person's end is near.

In line 1, he starts the poem with a question. He asks if he should compare the person to

a summer's day but ends up not doing so realizing that the person i


and beauty of the poem. It could also represent the poem itself, which keeps the person beautiful

couplet. In this case, the rhyme scheme of the quatrains is: abab cdcd efef gg. The couplet

rhyme is heaven and complexion and is his from lines 5 and 6. Repetition is very common in this

Some consonance examples (shown underlined in the sonnet above) are compare more, winds

by something dreadful happening. He says that natures changing course untrimmed meaning

is being compared to a face having a gold complexion in line 6. In line 11 Death is being



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