Question

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 dimm'd,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wander'st 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.

—“Sonnet 18,”
William Shakespeare

Use the poem to complete the sentences.



The first four lines of the poem make up a

.

The last two lines of the poem make up a

.

Answer 1

The first four lines of the poem make up a comparison between the person being addressed and a summer's day, highlighting the person's superiority in beauty and temperament.

The last two lines of the poem make up a declaration of the eternal nature of the person's beauty and the lasting impact of this poem, which will ensure that the person's beauty and memory will never fade away.