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Paraphrase the first stanza

The poet starts the poem with a question if he could compare his
beloved to a day in summer. He declares that she is more lovely and
nicer. He gives his own reasons. A summer’s day is so windy that it
shakes the small weak young flowers. Summer is short and
hot.Sometimes the sky is cloudy.

Paraphrase the second stanza


In the second stanza, he mentions why he does not like the idea of
such comparison as the sun in summer is very hot and sometimes
the
sky is cloudy and dull. It is a well known fact that every beautiful
thing at a certain point will stop being beautiful either by an accident
or naturally by time and death.

Paraphrase the third stanza


In the third stanza the poet says that his beloved's youth and
beauty will be everlasting as he is sure that his beloved will always
be beautiful and never be affected by the old age, even death will fail
to
put her in its dark shadow. She will actually live in his poetry which
will be always read as long as mankind exists
Figures of speech
1- Metaphor
the eye of heaven
shines
 The poet uses this image to describe the sun.

2- Personification
his gold complexion
dimm'd
 The sun is personified as a man with a dull face.
3- Metaphor
thy eternal summer shall not fade
 The poet makes an equation between youth and summer.
4- Personification
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his
shade
 The poet personifies death as a human who boasts.

5- Alliteration 2
By chance , or nature's changing course,
untrimm'd

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