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3. ……… .. Sonnet 18 A conventional love poem about the “Dark Lady” http://marrasouk.com In a conventional love poem the writer would exaggerate how beautiful his mistress is: by William Shakespeare What is a sonnet?

4. A sonnet is a 14 lines love poem http://marrasouk.com The first 12 lines are 3 quatrains Groups of 4 lines Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day Thou art more lovely and more temparate Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May And summer’s lease hath all too short date rhyme scheme ABAB With a closing couplet So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see So long lives this, and this gives life to thee Sums things up

5. http://marrasouk.com What is he saying? Thou art more lovely and more temperate You are lovelier and more temperate (the perfect temperature) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day What if I were to compare you to a summer day?

6. http://marrasouk.com And summer’s lease hath all too short a date Summertime fades away all too quickly Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May Summer’s beauty is fragile and can be shaken. Strong winds destroys the delicate flower buds

7. http://marrasouk.com And often is his gold complexion dimm’d And often it is too cool, dimmed by clouds and shade Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines Sometimes the sun is far too hot

8. http://marrasouk.com By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d Whether by chance or by the uncontrollable course of nature And every fair from fair sometimes declines And everything that is beautiful eventually loses its beauty

9. http://marrasouk.com Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st Nor will you lose your beauty But thy eternal summer shall not fade But your eternal beauty (or youth) will not fade

10. http://marrasouk.com When in eternal lines to time thou growest Since you shall grow with time through this sonnet Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade Nor will Death boast that you wander in his shade

11. http://marrasouk.com So long lives this and this gives life to thee This sonnet will live on and you (and your beauty) with it So long as men can breathe or eyes can see For as long as people can breathe and see

12. The End http://marrasouk.com 1.Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 2. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 3. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 4. And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 5. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 6. And often is his gold complexion dimmed, 7. And every fair from fair sometime declines, 8. By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: 9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade, 10. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, 11. Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, 12. When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, 13. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, 14. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.