Shakespearean Sonnet Due 9:00 p.m. April 1st

Locate a sonnet other than the two I read in class (“My Mistress’s Eyes” and “Shall I compare thee”).

You may NOT post the same sonnet someone else has posted.

First post the sonnet and then your explanation. Example:

Sonnet 130

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damasked, red and white,

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare

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In the first four lines (called a quatrain), Shakespeare describes . . .

In the next four lines, he . . .

And in the last quatrain, he . . .

Then in the last two lines (the couplet), he . . .