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A 5 page paper which examines how the images in this poem contribute to the central metaphor of the lover compared to a summer’s day. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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sonnet structure originally consisted of an octet (eight lines) and a closing sestet (six lines) and employed a rhyme scheme of abbaabba cdecde (Johnston A Note on Shakespeares Sonnets).
During the Elizabethan era, while the sonnet still contained a total of fourteen lines, it evolved into three quatrains (four lines each) and a closing couplet (two lines), with a
rhyme scheme of abababababab aa. The Petrarchan sonnet usually posed a dilemma which needed to be solved within the fourteen lines of the poem, while the Elizabethan sonnet might
consider a problem, it might not necessarily be resolved. As conceived by William Shakespeare, the Elizabethan sonnet were primarily romantic tales that often drew comparisons between lovers and nature.
This is never more evident than in Shakespeares "Sonnet 18," in which the enamored poet compares the passion felt for his lover to a summers day. Shakespeare wrote, "Shall
I compare thee to a summers day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summers lease hath
all too short a date: / Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, / And often is his gold complexion dimmd: / And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
/ By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall not fade, / Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst, / Nor shall death brag
thou wanderst in his shade, / When in eternal lines to time thou growst; / So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this,
and this gives life to thee" (1493). This is actually one of the most structurally simplistic of Shakespeares verses in that it is built on the central metaphorical
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