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Question:Just for something interesting and some points try and write a sonnet that starts with Shall I compare thee to.... etc.

A sonnet must have ten syllables in each line.
14 Lines
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A Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
B Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
A Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
B And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

C Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
D And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
C And every fair from fair sometime declines,
D By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

E But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
F Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
E Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
F When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

G So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
G So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

The lines with the same letters at the start must rhyme.
G&G = rhyming couplet

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Just for something interesting and some points try and write a sonnet that starts with Shall I compare thee to.... etc.

A sonnet must have ten syllables in each line.
14 Lines
Here is the original:
A Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
B Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
A Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
B And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

C Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
D And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
C And every fair from fair sometime declines,
D By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

E But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
F Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
E Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
F When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

G So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
G So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

The lines with the same letters at the start must rhyme.
G&G = rhyming couplet

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Shall i compare thee to an apple sticker

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