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In the following sonnet, plot out the rhyme scheme using the method described on the

back of this sheet. Then show the scansion marks (stressed and unstressed syllables) and

then separate the feet.

Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare

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 dimmed;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

What is this sonnet about?

Is the ending couplet a conclusion, amplification, or refutation of the main point of the

poem? How so?

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