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Gianluigi Salin Posted 12 years ago
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Shakespeare sonnet 18 analysis

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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