Sonnet 18: "Sometime Too Hot The Eye of Heaven Shines" "And Often Is His Gold Complexion Dimmed,"
Sonnet 18: "Sometime Too Hot The Eye of Heaven Shines" "And Often Is His Gold Complexion Dimmed,"
Sonnet 18: "Sometime Too Hot The Eye of Heaven Shines" "And Often Is His Gold Complexion Dimmed,"
Sonnet 18 contains the elements of a classic sonnet. It is written in 14 lines and contains the
rhyme scheme ababcdcdefefgg. The first and third lines and second and fourth lines rhyme, and
the pattern continues until the last two lines, both of which rhyme. In addition, the poem is
written in iambic pentameter. Each line has 10 syllables, with the first unaccented and the
second accented.
Personification
"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"
Metaphors:
Symbolism:
Throughout the whole poem Summer is being used as a symbol of youth.
The eye of heaven = sun
hyperbole
Generally, we can consider this sonnet like a big hyperbole that aims to explain the perfection
of a friend comparing him to the summer and saying that he is more lovely and durable than
the hot season.
TONE
Sonnet 18 has a tone of admiring, affectionate, and romantic.
Evidence: "Thou art more lovely and temperate"
The sonnet has a mood of dreamy, flirty, and awed.
Evidence:"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee."
THEME
Rhyme
End Rhyme :
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
Internal Rhyme