SONNET 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake 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 gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
1 - The subject of "Sonnet 18" has been immortalized by:
a - the speaker's love.
b - the children they have had.
c - the sonnet.
d - his memories.
2 - The purpose of a couplet in a Shakespearean sonnet is to:
a - set the tone.
b - conclude and highlight meaning.
c - Both.
Thx!
2007-03-13
18:05:09
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