The Shakespearean sonnet has three quatrains and a concluding couplet. It consists of 14 lines, the rhyming pattern is usually abab cdcd efef gg, and written in iambic pentameter. All of his sonnets were written about love. Sonnet 18 is about the narrator being in love with a beautiful girl. In verse one, he asks if he should compare her to a summer's day but summer is not as beautiful and constant. Summer eventually dies and turns …showed first 75 words of 471 total…

…showed last 75 words of 471 total…have no more beauty in it. This theme goes right along with the contrasting images because life is t showing beauty and death is showing ugliness. Life is usually more appealing than death, which makes her beauty even more distinguished. The theme of this poem relates to my life because I tend to look on the bright side of things in my life. The good things in my life make it seem that much better.