Question

does any one know anything about poetry? like shakespeare's 'shall i compare thee to a summer's day?' ?

Answer 1

Sonnet 18 - one of my favorites!

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.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest 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.

Answer 2

Translation to "Modern" English::

Should I compare you to a day in summer?
You are prettier and more mild
Winds shake the new flowers of May
And summer is much too short
Sometimes the sun shines too hotly
And often the sun is clouded over
And everything attractive eventually fades
Either because of chance or a change in nature
But your beauty won't fade
Nor will you lose the beauty you own
Nor will you ever die
You will continue to live and grow in these lines of poetry I write to you
So long as men live or their eyes can see,
So long as this poem exists, you will live on in these lines.

Answer 3

I just love it!! :) This is a classic Shakespearean sonnet - 14 lines total, ending in a rhyming couplet.