Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18

Sonnet 18 “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?” is from a collection of 154 sonnets that were officially published in the year 1609 under the name Shakespeare's sonnets. Sonnets usually consists of 14 lines with the first three quatrains having four verses that have a rhyming pattern of “abab” and are written in iambic pentameter. The last two lines are a couplet with a simple rhyme. The four stanzas of each couplet have been divided such that they are “thematic” segments that depict the mood of the narrator. In the sonnet, the poet is using ...