In the sonnet, there was several figurative languages evident in the poem. Shakespeare sonnet 18, battles with the issue of ‘youthfulness’, over and over Shakespeare approach this idea in each quatrain, and within each quatrain more in depth, the lyric poem becomes. The rhyme scheme was able to identify what type of sonnet it was, due to rhyming of the couplets. The rhyme scheme for the poem is ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG. Sonnet 18, is an English sonnet or Shakespeare sonnet, the foot is iambic, and meter is pentameter, it has 3 quatrains and 1 couplet. In sonnet 18, Shakespeare challenge death and other factors that his lover’s youthfulness will never fade. Shakespeare’s love poetry tended for more a male audience then female, due to the fact that love poetry was created and read mostly by other male poets, thus men would write love poetry about their lovers to brag or being boastful about their lover’s appearance. In Shakespeare’s era, poetry was his talent, a genius many would say, but his love poems were his true masterpiece.
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