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
—“Sonnet 18,”
William Shakespeare
In the first quatrain, the speaker is comparing
summer and winter.
his beloved and a summer day.
spring flowers and the wind.
a date and a summer day.