Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? By William Shakespeare ◦ sonnet: This poem is a Shakespearean sonnet which has three quatrains and a couplet written in iambic pentameter. ◦ rhyme: Is written in an end rhyme technique. ◦ personification: “Sometime to hot the eye of heaven shines,” (line 5) By giving heaven eyes, Shakespeare has given an inanimate thing human qualities. ◦ allusion: “Sometime to hot the eye of heaven shines,” (line 5) Heaven is a place of …showed first 75 words of 370 total…

…showed last 75 words of 370 total…have found a second poem that reminds me of this poem and was intended as comments about this sonnet. It is by Sophie Rickman. This poem also reminds me of the internal love felt between two people that lasts forever within they’re hearts. I think it also displays the true beauty of nature all around us and that we should be saving not destroying the environment, for without its beauty we would be nothing.