Gianni Griffin

English

5 October, 06:45

Read William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. Describe, in as much detail as you can, the form of the poem. How many lines does it have? How many stanzas? Does it rhyme? Do you know what type of poem it is? My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red, than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet by heaven I think my love as rare, As any she belied with false compare.