Question

Read the following Shakespearean sonnet. 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. In a well-developed paragraph, identify three features that make this poem a sonnet and discuss their effect on the poem.

Answer 1

A sonnet has 14 lines and and rhymes schemes last it has a specific structure and the structure is about a girl he talks about. Hope this helps