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The Appreciation of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 ----- 倪静 12级英语三班 Sonnet 18 -----William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summers 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 natures changing course untrimm’d; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growst. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Sonnet 18 is one of the best known of Shakespeare’s sonnet. As follows, I will analyze this poem from three aspects: the basic features of poetry, the use of rhetorical device and its theme.. 1. The basic features of poetry: (1) It belongs to iambic pentameters in whole except the line 3, 11 and 12. Line 3, 11 and 12 are changed to suit the change of feelings. (2) It is an abab cdcd efef gg patterned sonnet. (3) In terms of Rhyme, it contains beginning rhyme, assonance and end rhyme. These make the poem sound smooth and catchy. Beginning rhyme: between lines: “And “And”; “By” But”; ”So “So” within one line: “shall” “summer”, “do” ”darling”, “chance” “changing” et. Assonance: “sometime” “shines”, “or” “course”, “but” “summer” et. End rhyme: between lines: “day” may”, “temperate” date”, “shines” declines”, “dimm’d” “untrimm’d”, “fade” shade”, “ow’st””grow’st” “see””thee”. within one line: ”winds” ”buds”, ”lease” ”hath”, “lives” “gives”. 2. In rhetorical device, this sonnet is rich in alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and comparative device.