Sonnet 18
1 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
4 And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
6 And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
7 And every fair from fair sometime declines,
8 By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;
9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade
10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
11 Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade
12 When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.
13 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
14 So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
1. line 1: rhetorical question --> he does this anyway; even though he believes his love is more beautiful than a summer's day
2. In general, a summer's day is seen as something beautiful, so to compare your loved one with this and even saying she's better is a huge compliment.
3. rough winds, it doesn't last long, it is sometimes too warm, there are often clouds in front of the sun