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Sonnet XVIII
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peer reviewed
by Editorial Board member: Jacquelyn Matava
Song Title
Sonnet XVIII (
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Composer(s):
William Arthur Aikin
Author(s):
Yakamochi Ōtomo
Author Underrepresented Group
Asian (
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Keyword(s) & Features:
Beauty
;
Bragging
;
Breathing
;
Brevity
;
Buds
;
Comparing
;
Constancy
;
Day
;
Death
;
Dimming
;
Eternal
;
Eternity
;
Giving Life
;
Gold
;
Heaven
;
Hot
;
Immortality Through Poetry
;
Living
;
Lovely
;
May
;
Men
;
Nature
;
Passage of Time
;
Personification: Death
;
Sonnet
;
Summer
;
Unchanging
;
Wind
First Line
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (
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Average Duration
3:15 (
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Year of composition
1911 (
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Link to English Text Online
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day
Musical Form
Through-composed (
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Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups
Elizabethan poetry and drama (
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Original Language
English (
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Score Source
https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/7/7f/IMSLP335785-SIBLEY1802.26471.cb68-39087032500516score.pdf
Audio Source
https://open.spotify.com/track/3OgzrDuYjLX4ZRJYJIOE8Z?si=19wCt57xQ_upFXDEy12Kzg
Range:
C4 - F5 (
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Original Key
C Major (
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Dedicated To
Gervase Elwes (
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