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Stanza 1: Let's compare you to summertime. You are more beautiful and pleasant. The weather in summer is sometimes lousy. Summer doesn't last long either.Stanza 2: It's sometimes too hot and sometimes too cloudy. If you get a good day, it doesn't last.Stanza 3: But your beauty will never end. Not even death can end it.Couplet: So long as people are alive and can read, this poem will keep you alive.

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A Shakespearean Sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter and with a rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg.

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There are 3 four-line stanzas in a Shakespearean Sonnet. The last stanza has 2 lines. Each line has 10 syllables and has a rhyming pattern of a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-e-f-e-f-g-g

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