Parts of a Sonnet

Use the poem to complete the sentences

The first four lines of the poem make up a

The last two lines of the poem make up a

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

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

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee,

The first four lines form a quartet and the last two lines form a third; This is a type of poetic composition made up of fourteen verses of major art, hendecasyllables in their classical form.

The verses are organized into four stanzas: two quartets (stanzas of four verses) and two triplets (stanzas of three verses). Although the distribution of the content of the sonnet is not strict, it can be said that the first quartet presents the theme of the sonnet, and that the second amplifies or develops it. The first triplet reflects on the central idea, or expresses some sentiment related to the theme of the quartets. The final triplet, the most emotional, ends with a serious reflection or with a deep feeling, in both cases, unleashed by the previous verses. In this way, the classical sonnet presents an introduction, a development, and a conclusion in the last trio, which somehow gives meaning to the rest of the poem.