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“Sonnet XVIII”
by William Shakespeare, page 6
Vocabulary
temperate – moderate
darling – beloved
lease – temporary ownership, permission
1. What comparison does the speaker make in this poem?
2. What poetic device is employed in the seventh line of the sonnet?
3. What is “the eye of heaven”?
4. How does the poem’s final quatrain distinguish between his beloved and the summer?
5. According to the poem’s concluding couplet, why will the beloved’s beauty last forever?
6. Traditional Elizabethan sonnets are fourteen lines long and end with two rhymed lines.
What is the term for these two rhymed lines?
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