Jimmy



Biography:  William Shakespeare was born April 26, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His real birthday is unknown but is celebrated April 26, 1564. Shakespeare went to Kings New School in Stratford. At the age of 18 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway that was 26 at the time. May 26, 1583 Anne was pregnant with her daughter Susanna. Two years later Anne was pregnant again with twins, a son Hamnet and Judith. At the age of 11 Hamnet died. Shakespeare’s dying son encouraged him to write. Shakespeare died April 23, 1616.

Shakespeare used a lot of styles when writing. He used Sonnets, Figurative speech like metaphors, and rhyme scheme. **Sonnets are fourteen-line lyric poem that have lines ten syllables long, with accents falling on every second syllable.** A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two things that don’t use the two words like or as. A rhyme scheme is a ordered pattern of rhymes. My favorite Shakespeare poem is shall I compare thee to a summer’s day.

** A woman's face with nature's own hand ** ** A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted ** ** Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; ** ** A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted ** ** With shifting change, as is false women's fashion; ** ** An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, ** ** Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; ** ** A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling, ** ** Much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth. ** ** And for a woman wert thou first created; ** ** Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting, ** ** And by addition me of thee defeated, ** ** By adding one thing to my purpose nothing. ** ** But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure, ** ** Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure. **

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Poem description : This poem is a sonnet. I can tell that this is a sonnet because it is 14 lines long and has accents on every second syllable. The poem is also using rhyme.