William Shakespeares Sonnet #55 Essay -- English Literature Shakespea

William Shakespeares Sonnet 55 is a Shakespearian sonnet. It contains tierce quatrains, or four 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 four line stanzas, and ends with acouplet. The poem is written in iambic pentameter. The speaker 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 not sharing his beauty with theworld, but is selfishly keeping it all to himself. Hes explaining tothe addressee that he needs to have children to spread his beauty andshare it with the world. In the first quatrain the speaker is telling the addressee about howhe will live forevermore in the poem. Shakespeare writes, Not marblenor the gilded monuments/ of princes shall outlive this powerfulrhyme (Shakespeare lines 1-2). He uses a metaphor comparing thebeauty of the yo ung man to upswept nether region besmeared with sluttishtime (Shake...