Sonnet CXXX
By William Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.
Obviously this is a Shakespearean sonnet since it is written by Shakespeare himself. It is in iambic pentameter with three quatrains and a couplet. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, which is typical in this type of sonnet. It is about loving someone because of their beauty on the inside, not their physical beauty. Other types of sonnets are Italian sonnets Spenserian sonnets.
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