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Poetry Analysis Project **Rhyme scheme- ababcdcdefefgg Similes- all comparisons are metaphors Metaphors- the beloved to a summer day (extended metaphor) Personification- winds do shake the darling buds of May Imagery- rough winds, gold complexion  1. The basic comparison is between a loved one and a summer day  2. The speaker feels happy and excited because its significant other is “more lovely and more temperate” than a summer’s day **Rhyme scheme- ababcdcdefefgg Similes- all comparisons are metaphors Metaphors- comparing love to what is needed to survive, love is not all Personification- love cannot fill the thickened lung, nor can love clean the blood, nor set a fractured bone Imagery-fractured bone, thickened bone 1. Lines 1-2 are most memorable because it says that love is not needed for survival. Life will be very lonely but it will still go on. 2. Meat, drink, slumber, and a roof against the rain are all things that are needed for survival. 4. The speaker’s opinion of love is that love can be a bad thing and it could pin someone down with pain but it has no price to sell. <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">5. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and Millay’s Sonnet 30” do follow the same structure. Both poems contain 14 lines and a couplet in lines 13&14. Both poems also follow the iambic contaminator rhyme scheme. <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">6. Both poems’ attitudes do reflect how love is conveyed today. No matter what era the world is in, love will always be compared to many different things like a summer’s day in “Sonnet 18” and meat or drink in “Sonnet 30.” <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1. Speaker Profile: <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The speaker of “Sonnet 30” is a middle-aged man. He has found love and enjoys it but knows there is more to life than just love. He feels that not having love will not kill someone because it is not a need but a want, yet he will not give his love up for anything. <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">2. Not-love Poem: <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> //**Love is Not**// Love is not the wind <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">It does not howl for lack of reason <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">It is not pinned <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">To a certain season <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Nor is love a blazing fire <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Destroying everything in sight <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">It chooses who it wants to hire <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Even if it causes a fight <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Love is not a blistering blizzard <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">It does not take away vision <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Like a tractor-trailer scissored <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Causing a big collision <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Love is not alive <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">But it is used to strive
 * <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“Sonnet 18”
 * <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“Sonnet 30”
 * <span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Writing Options **