Sonnet 18
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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.
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.
A.
In "Sonnet 18," does the beloved fare better or worse than a summer's day?
- The beloved fares better; the beloved's beauty declines.
- The beloved fares worse; the beloved's wrinkles begin to show.
- The beloved fares better; the beloved's beauty is constant.
B.
How many lines are included in the sonnet?
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
C.
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?
- ababcdcdefefgg
- abbaabbacdecde
- ababababababab
- abcdabcdabcdee
D.