English - Literature - Poetry - Sonnets - Shakespearean and Petrarchan - Analyze a Sonnet

Take Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 ('Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'). Work through: (1) Mark the rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. (2) Identify the argument in each quatrain: Q1: You're better than summer. Q2: Summer fades but you won't. Q3: Time can't destroy you because... (3) The COUPLET deliv