ELA
Name: __________________
William Shakespeare: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Original Text
Fill-In
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shall I compare thee to a ______________’s _________?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Thou art more ___________ and more __________________.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
Rough ________ do ________ the ___________ _________ of _______,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
And ____________’s ________ hath all too _________ a _________.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
Sometime too _______ the _______ of ___________ ___________,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And often is _____ __________ _____________ _______________;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
And every ______ from _______ sometime ___________,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
By ________, or _________’s changing __________, un__________ed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
But thy eternal ______________ shall not ________,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor lose possession of that ________ thou _________,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
Nor shall _______ _______ thou _____________ in his ___________,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
When in eternal __________ to Time thou __________.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long as _______ can __________, or ________ can _________,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
So long lives _________, and ________ gives life to thee.
Questions:
1. What is the biggest point the author is
making to his target audience?
2. What is an extended metaphor?
CHALLENGE: Feel too restricted by this template?
Write your own free verse on the blank back side of
this paper. I encourage you to be very intentional
about your RHYMING and all fitting in one extended
METAPHOR!