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Sonnet 18

        ,           ,       ,          ,         ,
      Shall I | compare | thee to | a sum|mer's day?
        ,          ,    ,             ,    ,
      Thou art | more love/ly and | more temp/erate:
        T     T    .    T           ,        ,        ,
      Rough winds do* shake | the darl|ing buds | of May,
           ,           ,          ,     T    T   .   T
      And sum|mer's lease | hath^all | too short a date:
        T   T   T     ,         T   .   Tx      T
      Sometime too | hot the | eye of heaven shines,
           ,      ,         ,         ,         ,
      And of|ten is | his gold | complex|ion dimmed,
           ,       ,            ,      T   T   .   T
      And eve|ry fair | from* fair | sometime declines,
            ,         ,          ,          ,          ,
      By chance,| or na|ture's chang|ing course | untrimmed:
           ,       ,        x       T    T    T
      But thy | etern|al summer | shall not fade,
            ,         ,       ,          ,           ,
      Nor lose | possess|ion of | that fair | thou owst,
             ,       T    T     T      ,          2      ,
      Nor* shall | death brag thou | wanderst | in his shade,
            ,      ,       ,          ,            ,
      When in | etern|al lines | to time | thou growst,
           ,        ,           ,           ,         ,
      So long | as men | can breathe,| or eyes | can see,
       .   T    T     T     .    T    T     T         ,
      So long lives this,| and this gives life | to thee.

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