Question

Identify three features that make this poem a sonnet and discuss their effect on the poem. (poem added)

Answer 1

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 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.

Answer 2

I will give you 2 features and let you explain the effect they have on the poem.

Answer 3

There is 10 syllables per line, and there is a couplet a the bottom.