This is the sonetto: 1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 2. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 3. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 4. And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 5. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 6. And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; 7. And every fair from fair sometime declines, 8. By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; 9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade, 10. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; 11. Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, 12. When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: 13. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, 14. So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
I already done the analysis for the first 6 lines: 1. (Shall) I compare thee (to a summer's day)? (aux) S V O (prepositional phrase) 2. Thou art more lovely and more temperate: S V (maybe a copula) adjectives 3. Rough winds (do) shake the darling buds of May, S (aux) V O 4. And summer's lease hath all too short a date: S V O 5. (Sometime) (too hot) the eye of heaven shines, (adv) (adjective) S V 6. And (often) (is) his gold complexion (dimm'd); (adv) (aux or not, depending if dimm'd is considered adjective or past participe) S (adj or past participe)
Im not sure about the last 8 lines: 7. And every fair from fair (sometime) declines, S O (adv) V 8. (By chance or nature's changing course) (untrimm'd); (prepositional phrase) (adj) ??? 9. But thy eternal summer (shall not) fade, S (aux) V 10. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; V O / O S V 11. Nor (shall) Death brag thou wander'st (in his shade), (aux) S V / S V (prepositional phrase) 12. (When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: (adv) (prep. phrase) (prep. phrase) S V 13. (So long as) men (can) breathe or eyes (can) see, (adv) S (aux) V / S (aux) V 14. (So long) lives this and this gives life to thee. (adv) V S / S V O
Are these last lines correct?
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