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Daily Notes on Poetry & Related Matters

April 22: I got some excellent responses to my New-Poetry query about maximum space allowed between members of melodations like alliterations yesterday, although none answered the query. They suggested things it would profit me to think about in my analysis of the sonnet, specifically caesurae (which I'd never thought about) and sentence length and structure. So, I'll add comentary about them to my analysis. But not today. Today, I don't have to sub and I've decided to pretty much take it off.

     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.

What is this? Only two (or three?) caesurae, or do I not understand caesurae? And every line a complete clause? Except that last two? Hmmmm.

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