Upper secondary

Shakespeare’s Sonnets
“Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?”
1 Reading I “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?” is a line found in Shakespeare’s
Read over the article once. What do most famous sonnet: Sonnet No. 18. This is the most quoted of all
you think of the sonnet? Is it a good Shakespeare’s sonnets (of which there were 154). Interestingly, his sonnets
love poem? Why? Why not? aren’t always as romantic as you’d imagine. Some of the topics in them include
politics, beauty, mortality and, of course, love – although often the darker side
2 Reading I of love.
Find lines in the sonnet (a-n) that
correspond to the descriptions below So, what is a sonnet? A sonnet is similar to a poem. However, a sonnet follows
(1 to 10). a stricter structure. A standard sonnet is composed of three four-line stanzas.
These stanzas have the rhyming pattern abab, cdcd, efef, gg. This means that
1 You are lovelier and the first line must rhyme with the third line, the second line with the fourth,
the fifth with the seventh, and so on. The last two lines (gg) are a couplet and
gentler. have their own rhyme.
2 And summer is far too Configuración principal

Feeling brave? Why not try writing your own sonnet?

short. Configuración secundaria

3 At times the sun is too hot, Configuración simplificada

4 And is often hidden by the Shakespearean Sonnet

clouds;
Sonnet No.18
5 And everything beautiful
“Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?”
will eventually lose its
beauty, a. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
b. Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
6 But your youth shall not
c. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
fade, d. And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
7 Nor will you lose the e. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
beauty that you have; f. And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
g. And every fair from fair sometime declines,
8 Nor will you die, h. By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
9 As long as there are i. But thy eternal summer shall not fade
people on this earth, j. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
k. Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
10 As long as this poem survives, l. When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
you will too. m. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
4 - f, 5 - g, 6 - i, 7 - j, 8 - k, 9 - m, 10 - n
n. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Answers 2 1 - b, 2 - d, 3 - e,

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