From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
As in virtually all of Shakespeare's sonnets, the first four lines form a quatrain with an ABAB rhyme scheme: "sun" in line 1 rhymes "dun" in line 3 and "red" in line 2 rhymes "head" in line 4.
The below quoted Sonnet is the first one in the collection which was published in 1609. That does not mean, however that it was necessarily the first sonnet in the collection he wrote, as they may not have been arranged in order of composition. In addition, he may have written unpublished sonnets before any of the ones which were published.
Shakespeare wrote several sonnets, you would have to be more specific.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day.
"When in the chronicle of wasted time"
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sonnet 18
Iambic pentameter.
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It makes fun of the blazon and exaggerated comparisons of beauty.
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sonnet 18
Iambic pentameter.
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It makes fun of the blazon and exaggerated comparisons of beauty.
This line from Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 means that true love should not be hindered by any obstacles or challenges. It emphasizes the idea that genuine love is constant and unchanging, despite difficulties that may arise. It asserts the belief in the endurance and purity of true love.
Sonnet 28, written by William Shakespeare, is typically referred to by its first line "How can I then return in happy plight."
Probably either Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to as summer's day") or Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments")
a sixteen line poem is a sixteen line poem, not a sonnet, consisting of fourteen lines.
Shakespeare wrote several sonnets, you would have to be more specific.
The Winter of Our Discontent
A sonnet is a quatorzain, or a 14-line poem.