Sonnet #18
William Shakespeare
rhyme – end rhymes
special rhyme scheme for a sonnet
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? A
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date: B
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, C
And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd; D
And every fair from fair sometime declines, C
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd: D
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade E
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; F
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, E
When in eternal lines to time thou growest: F
ABAB CDCD EFEF
RHYMING COUPLET – couple, 2 lines, often separated from the rest of the poem
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, G
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. G
rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
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