Question

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 of poem is this?
A. Sonnet
B. Sestina
C. Haiku
D. Ode

Answer 1

Answer: A. Sonnet

Step-by-step explanation:

A sonnet is a type of poem that in its traditional form, is written in iambic pentameter (deals with the placement of certain syllables to elicit a certain sound) and typically comprises of fourteen lines much like the poem above.

The poem above is known as Sonnet 18. It was written by William Shakespeare and talks bout how even though the qualities of a summer day might fade, the description of the young man in the poem will live on forever in the poem.