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  2. Sonnet 18 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare.. In the sonnet, the speaker asks whether he should compare the Fair Youth to a summer's day, but notes that he has qualities that surpass a summer's day, which is one of the themes of the poem.

  3. On the Late Massacre in Piedmont - Wikipedia

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    Milton’s Sonnet 18 is written in iambic pentameter, with ten syllables per line, and consists of the customary 14 lines. Milton's sonnets do not follow the English (Shakespearean) sonnet form, however, but the original Italian (Petrarchan) form, as did other English poets before him (e.g. Wyatt) and after him (e.g. Elizabeth Browning). This ...

  4. Category:Sonnets by William Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Sonnet 18; Sonnet 19; Sonnet 20; Sonnet 21; Sonnet 22 ...

  5. Dark Lady (Shakespeare) - Wikipedia

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    At the end of the episode, after deducing that she is from the future, he calls her his "dark lady" and recites Sonnet 18 for her. Upstart Crow S1E4 names Emilia as the Dark Lady and portrays her as annoyed with her depiction in sonnet 130 and more receptive to Kit Marlowe's crude but direct flattery. The series also includes the character of ...

  6. Elegiac Sonnets - Wikipedia

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    [2]: 18 The combination of the book's well-crafted poetry and its vivid emotional impact made Elegiac Sonnets one of the most well-respected and popular books of the century. [ 4 ] : 29 In addition to inspiring poets to write their own sonnets, Elegiac Sonnets inspired many poets to write poems about Smith herself, celebrating her work and ...

  7. Sonnet 8 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 8 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. As with the other procreation sonnets, it urges a young man to settle down with a wife and to have children. It insists a family is the key to living a harmonious, peaceful life.

  8. Samuel Daniel - Wikipedia

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    Recent analysis of an extant early manuscript of Daniel's poem, however, suggests that Shakespeare could have used such a manuscript as a source, making an earlier date possible. [ 75 ] The First Four Books of the Civil Wars and Henry IV, Part 1 – In Henry IV, Part 1 , Shakespeare depicts Prince Hal and Hotspur as being around the same age ...

  9. Sonnet 88 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 88 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, which has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the rhyme scheme, abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter lines, which is a poetic metre in which each line has five feet, and each foot has two syllables accented weak/strong.