Shall I Compare Thee?
According to the poem, rough winds shake the buds of this month.
What is May?
The country from where Petrarch is from.
What is Italy?
According to the poem, this has "too short a date."
What is summer's lease?
The number of years that Petrarch pursued Laura.
What is 21?
These are the years in which Shakespeare lived.
What is 1564-1616?
This is an eight-line stanza.
What is a quantrain?
According to the poem, this is what keeps his woman alive.
What is the poem?
A Shakespearean sonnet is made up of these two types of stanzas.
What are quatrains and a couplet?