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Rhyme Scheme Of Sonnet 18

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Khaled Alarabi

Mr. Ali Alshehabi

English

24 November 2016

Sonnet 18 Poem Analysis

Sonnet 18 is a poem written by the amazing William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was an English

poet, Playwright and an actor. He’s known as the best writer in the English language and the

world's pre-eminent dramatist, which means that he’s the world’s most famous

playwright/scriptwriter.

Even though Shakespeare had died many years ago his work, plays, sonnets and narrative

poems still inspires us all and it’s still alive till this very day. One of his most famous work were

the 153 Sonnets and basically what a sonnet is it’s a form of poem that consists of three quatrains

followed by a couplet, and has the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. They were …show more content…

Shakespeare makes it seems like

he found or created a time traveling machine by using “Poetry” as a form of immortality and in a

way, it is it’ll always be with us if it was written in such an amazing constructed way just like

Sonnet 18.

Now we can have a look at the different figurative language used in this poem, for example

metaphor. Which is basically comparing two things without using like or as. The poem starts

with asking a question “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Which outlines the metaphor

for the whole poem which he compares his love as a summer’s day. In lines 5-6 we see another

metaphor where Shakespeare is comparing the sun to the heaven’s eye this figurative language

emphasizes the beauty of the sun, and that even this beautiful sun which is heaven’s eye is going

to get dim and its beauty will fade but unlike you my lover your beauty won’t fade because I

have written this poem about you.

Next let’s have a look at imagery which is words that appeal to our five senses to create a vivid

description. In lines 3-6: “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of …show more content…

The words rough and hot appeal to the

sense of touch, while Shines and Gold appeal to the sense of sight. In fact, the “buds of May” can

appeal to the sense of smell by referring to flowers. These are just a few examples of the imagery

Shakespeare uses to create a vivid description of a summer day.

Going on to the poetic elements in this Sonnet, we can see repetition in lines 2,13-14

Line 2: “Thou art more lovely and more

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