Preparing to memorize
which features of this sonnet will you memorize it?
check all that apply.
reread the first four lines of "sonnet 18" two or three
times out loud
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
- "sonnet 18,"
william shakespeare
there are ten syllables in each line.
the first four lines repeat.
every other line rhymes.
every other line has the same first word.
the four lines are a comparison between a person
and the features of summer.