prompt write a sonnet using the traditional shakespearean sonnet form. read more >>

Brief Explanations:

A Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines in iambic pentameter, with a rhyme - scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The first three quatrains present ideas or problems, and the final couplet provides a conclusion or resolution.

Answer:

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.