Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 and Questions

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.


Response Questions
On a separate sheet of paper please answer the following questions.
1.What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
2.Summarize the theme of this poem.
3.How many syllables are in the first and last line?
4.Why might the last two lines be separated from the rest of the poem?
5.What metaphor is in this poem; what two things are compared?
6.What is an example of personification?
7.What is “this” in the last line? How long will it last?