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Julius Cheeks died on 1981-01-27.
Couplets can be used in multiple forms of poetry. For example, a Shakespearean sonnet makes use of it. A sonnet has three quatrains followed by a couplet. The rhyming scheme is ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG. Here's an example of one of Shakespeare's sonnets. Notice the final two lines as a couplet:My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damasked, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat music hath a far more pleasing sound;I grant I never saw a goddess go;My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rareAs any she belied with false compare.Couplets are also used on their own in order to make a quick little poem with a simple but clever structure.
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The University of Mississippi was named after an old mistress. "Ole Miss"
Shakespeare says: 'My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun'
The blush that accompanies a rose
Shakespeare says: 'My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun'
The blush that accompanies a rose
Shakespeare says: 'My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun'
In sonnet 130, the speaker mentions that his mistress's cheeks are not as red as coral. He is highlighting the honesty in his love by comparing her to realistic, ordinary things rather than using exaggerated, flowery language.
The rhyme scheme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun," is ababcdcdefefgg.
It's a sonnet.
All the other guys were writing sonnets saying, "My mistress's eyes are like the sun, her hair like fire, her lips like cherries, her cheeks like the petals of roses." Shakespeare says, "Ever hear the word 'cliché'? Rather than use these old, stale, tired metaphors, Shakespeare renounces them and says, "My mistress's eyes are like eyes actually, not the sun." She is a real woman, which means that she is not perfect or superhumanly beautiful, but, says Shakespeare, "I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare."--she is more beautiful than any other real woman (who has probably been told she has eyes like the sun).
He Had a black mistress My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130) by William ShakespeareMy mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.
It's a poem. It doesn't have a setting.
Sonnet 130