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Sonnet 18 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - written in iambic pentameter
      - 14 lines
      - 10 syllables per line
  - - - Quatrain 1 (ABAB):
      - Sets up the comparison, discussing why the beloved is even better than a summer’s day.
      - Quatrain 2 (CDCD):
      - Explores how summer is fleeting and imperfect, but the beloved’s beauty is more enduring.
      - Quatrain 3 (EFEF):
      - Reflects on how death and time might try to take away beauty, but the beloved’s beauty will live on.
- - - - joy, happiness
      - the theme could be considered comforting
        
        soft
        
        The poet wished to express a comforting and romantic theme on the reader by representing love in this happy and ideal sort of way. This is done by comparing the love interest to nature and the beauty it can hold.
- - - - Same weight of words
  - - - Opens with 'shall I compare thee to a summer's day'
        
        Then continues the subject
        
        Flows topic from Immortality to beauty
        
        Talks about the subject as immortal