In a one to two-page, MLA-style, single-spaced essay, tackle each section of the poem, explaining its content and discussing the effect of its rhetorical and poetic devices. Do not take random bits and pieces from the poem; instead, move chronologically and fastidiously through each line, covering each stanza or section thoroughly. Use Shakespeare′s ″Sonnet 18″ 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 dimm′d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature′s changing course, untrimm′d; 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..