Shakespeare sonnet 18 MP

Love sonnet 18 follows iambic pentameter and consists of three quatrains and a couplet, much like most of Shakespeare's other sonnets. The rhyme scheme is ababcdcdefefgg. Shakespeare compares a person to a summer's day, stating that the person is "more lovely and more temperate." Shakespeare then lists some negative aspects of summer saying that it is too short and sometimes gets too hot. "And summer's lease hath all too short a date, sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines." However, while summer has to end eventually, the beauty of this person will never fade. The person's beauty is immortalized by the fact he is putting them in a poem. "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." Shakespeare is capturing this person's beauty and making it eternal by the fact that this poem continuously lives on.