William Shakespeares Sonnet #55 Essay -- English Literature Shakespea

William Shakespeares Sonnet 55 is a Shakespearian sonnet. It contains three quatrains, or quad line stanzas, and ends with a couplet. The poem is written in iambic pentameterWilliam Shakespeares Sonnet 55 is a Shakespearian sonnet. Itcontains three quatrains, or quartet line stanzas, and ends with acouplet. The poem is written in iambic pentameter. The utterer isthe older man. This is the same speaker in many of Shakespearessonnets. In this sonnet the speaker is telling the young man,beautiful, male addressee that he is non sharing his saucer with theworld, but is selfishly keeping it all to himself. Hes explaining tothe addressee that he needs to have children to spread his beauty and cover it with the world. In the first quatrain the speaker is telling the addressee about howhe allow for live eternally in the poem. Shakespeare writes, Not marblenor the gilded monuments/ of princes shall come through this powerfulrhyme (Shakespeare lines 1-2). He uses a metaphor comparing the beauty of the young man to upswept stone besmeared with sluttishtime (Shake...