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Derstand the Functions of the Form

Read this poem:
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 owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou growest;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
so long lives this;- and this gives life to thee. What type a of poem is this?
A. Ode
B. Haiku
C. Sonnet
D. Sestina

User Bvoleti
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This is a Shakespeare Sonnet, specifically number 18. Even without knowing the author, we can tell this is a sonnet because it has 14 lines with an ending couplet
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