Poem by William Shakespeare, Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase, Literature, poems
Tweet about this video , socratica, socraticashakespeare Poem by William Shakespeare, Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase, Literature, poems Sonnet 1 by William Shakespeare is one of the Fair Youth sonnets encouraging a young man to marry and have children (one of the socalled procreation sonnets). It follows the pattern of three quatrains and a couplet written in iambic pentameter, with an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme. Full text: From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed st thy light s flame with selfsubstantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world s fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content, And, tender churl, mak st waste in niggarding. Pity
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