Show you an example of a paraphrased poem?

Answer 1

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?: Shall I compare you to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate: You are more lovely and more constant:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May: stormy winds shake May flower

And summer's lease hath all too short a date: And summer is far too short:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines: At times the sun is too hot,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd: Or often goes behind the clouds;

And every fair from fair sometime declines: And everything beautiful sometime will lose its beauty,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd: By misfortune or by nature's planned out course.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade: But your youth shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest: even death will not take you away from beauty,

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade: Nor will death claim you for his own,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest: Because in my eternal verse you will live forever.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see: So long as there are people on this earth,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee: So long will this poem live on, making you immortal.