RE: WRES/major shareholder6 Jan 2022 10:35
GUG,
For it to be a sonnet ( in English and as typically written by Shakespeare e.g. Shall I compare thee to a summers day……..) it requires it to have fourteen lines. Did MM’s statements have fourteen lines, ideally with ten syllables and rhyme, I think not.
Thank you for raising the sonnet issue, my favourite and probably most people’s is :
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.