... them an English Bible and if they owned a secular" work of literature it was more than likely the "works of Shakespeare" (549). Shakespeare was not only a literature icon in his historical period but is an icon in the 21st century. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets celebrating Shakespeare's love for a young man, his rivalry with another poet and his troubled relationship with a woman who was known as ... two lines 13 and 14 are rhymed iambic couplets. The last two words of the lines rhyme, "rare and compare." Shakespeare uses the rhyme scheme of the English sonnet adjusting its form to ABAB...

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• Grade Level: High School