Sonnet XVIII

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Song TitleSonnet XVIII (Search)
Composer(s):William Arthur Aikin
Author(s):Yakamochi Ōtomo
Author Underrepresented GroupAsian (Search)
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 LineShall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Search)
Average Duration3:15 (Search)
Year of composition 1911 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day
Musical FormThrough-composed (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsElizabethan poetry and drama (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
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 (Search)
Original KeyC Major (Search)
Dedicated ToGervase Elwes (Search)
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