Page 120 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit
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“Sonnet LXXIII”
by William Shakespeare, page 7
Vocabulary
consumed – inspired
nourished – sustained
1. What is the meter of this poem?
2. In the first quatrain, the speaker compares his age to which season? Why?
3. Why does the speaker say that his age resembles the “twilight”?
4. What does the speaker say in the final couplet of the poem?
5. What is the rhyme scheme of this sonnet?
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