Sonnet 15

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:poetry
gptkbp:adaptation Film adaptations.
Theatrical performances.
Musical settings.
gptkbp:analysis Contrasts natural beauty with the passage of time.
Explores the relationship between beauty and time.
Reflects on the inevitability of aging.
Suggests the power of procreation.
gptkbp:contains_song ABABCDCDEFEFGG
gptkbp:critical_reception Widely acclaimed.
Analyzed by literary critics.
gptkbp:cultural_impact Referenced in popular culture.
Influenced later poets.
Studied in literature courses.
gptkbp:form gptkb:sonnet
gptkbp:historical_context Elizabethan Era
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sonnet 15
gptkbp:influence Romantic Poetry
gptkbp:inspiration gptkb:Nature
Human Experience
gptkbp:language Early Modern English
gptkbp:line To be more than themselves, or, if they be.
When I consider everything that grows
gptkbp:literary_devices gptkb:Metaphor
gptkb:personification
Imagery
gptkbp:notable_quote And yet, to be more than themselves.
But as the ripe should be, the unripe must.
gptkbp:number_of_lines gptkb:14
gptkbp:part_of gptkb:Shakespeare's_Sonnets
gptkbp:published_by gptkb:Thomas_Thorpe
gptkbp:published_in 1609
gptkbp:related_works gptkb:Sonnet_14
gptkb:Sonnet_16
gptkb:Sonnet_17
gptkb:Sonnet_19
gptkb:Sonnet_18
gptkbp:style gptkb:sonnet
gptkbp:theme gptkb:Beauty
gptkb:Time
Mortality
gptkbp:translated_into Translated into multiple languages.
gptkbp:written_by gptkb:William_Shakespeare
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:William_Shakespeare
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4