Sonnet 18 

     1.  Shall I compare thee to a Summers day?
     2.  Thou art more louely and more temperate:
     3.  Rough windes do shake the darling buds of Maie,
     4.  And Sommers lease hath all too short a date:
     5.  Sometime too hot the eye of heauen shines,
     6.  And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
     7.  And euery faire from faire some-time declines,
     8.  By chance, or natures changing course vntrim'd:
     9.  But thy eternall Sommer shall not fade,
     10. Nor loose possession of that faire thou ow'st,
     11. Nor shall death brag thou wandr'st in his shade,
     12. When in eternall lines to time thou grow'st,
     13.   So long as men can breath or eyes can see,
     14.   So long liues this, and this giues life to thee.


Repeated Words

a a 
and and And And And 
can can\
eternall eternall 
eye I eyes 
faire faire faire 
his his
in in
lines lines
more more
Nor Nor
of of of
or or
Shall shall shall
So So
sometime Sometime
Sommer Sommers Summers
the the 
thee thee
thou thou thou Thou
to to to too too

7 end-rhymes

Internal Rhymes

com(pare)/Sum(mers)  l. 1
a/day l. 1
Som(mers)/some(time)/com(plexion)/from/some(time)  l. 4-7
(eve)ry/de(clines)  l. 7
so/see/so  l. 13-14
gives/lives  l. 14

Summer Sounds

zzzz 16
mmmm 14
shhhh 9
ssss 9
llll 7
ffff 3
wwww 3

Euphonies

oo 7
oh 5
ah 5

Exposed Vowels  47

e(2)      so(2)      of(3)
a(2)      thy        and(5)
i(2)      see        all
          by         ev
          thee(2)    or(2)
          to(5)      un
          day        in(2)
          thou(4)    ow'st
          ly         as
          do         eyes
          the(2)     art
          ry


Viable Alliterations 21

pare/pe l. 1-2
to/tem l. 1-2
more/more/Maie/mers l. 2-4
love/ly/ling/lease l. 2-4
rate/Rough l. 2-3
do/dar/date l. 3-4
shake/short/shines/xion l. 3-6
hath/hot/hea/his l. 4-6
time/ten/time l. 5-6
com/clines/course l. 6-8
dimm'd/de l. 6-7
By/But l. 8-9
chance/tures/chan l.8
na/nall/not/Nor/Nor l. 8-11
thy/that/thou/thou/thou l. 
shall/sion/shall/shade l. 9-11
fade/faire l. 9-10
wan/When l. 11-12
lines/long//long/lives/life l. 12-14
ter/to/time l. 12
this/this/thee l. 14


Viable Assonances  23


com/Sum/love/pe/Rough/the/buds/of/Som/Some/the/(hea)ven/of/com/xion/from/some/un/
But/Some/sion/of l. 1-10
pare/tem l. 1-2
a/day/rate/shake/Maie/a/date l. 1-4
windes/(darl)ing l. 3
And/hath l. 3-4
all/short l. 4
time/eye/shines l. 5
(of)ten/(com)ple(xioneve(ry)/faire/faire l. 6-7
is/his/dimm'd l. 6
And/And/chance l. 6-8
time/(de)clines/By/thy l. 7-9
or/na(tures)/course l. 8
chang(ging)/fade l. 8-9
(eter)nal/shall/po/sses(ion)/faire/shall/death/(wan)dr'st/When/(eter)nall/men l. 9-13
that/brag l. 10-11
in/his/in l. 11-12
e(ternall)/see/breathe/thee l. 12-14
lines/time/eyes/life l. 12-14
grow'st/So/So l. 12-14
long/or l. 13
as/can/can/and l. 13-14
lives/this/this/gives l. 14



Viable Consonances  12

(com)pare/(Sum)mers/art/more/more/dar(ling)(Som)mers/short l. 1-4
and/windes/And/ven/shines/ten/xion/And/clines/chance/chan/un/ l. 2-8
com/Sum/tem/Som/Some/com/dimm'd/from/some/time/trim'd/Som l. 1-9 
windes/buds/mers/shines/is/his/clines/tures/l. 3-8
short/date/hot l. 4-5
faire/faire/ortures/course/trim'd/ter/mer/Nor/faire/Nor/dr'st/ter/grow'st/or l. 7-13
chance/course l. 8
But/not/that/ow'st/dr'st/grow'st l. 9-12
lose/his/lines/as/eyes/lives/gives l. 10-14
sses/ow'st/dr'st/grow'st l. 10-12
sion/wan/in/When/inlinesmen/can/canand l. 10-14
shall/nall l. 11-12