A Sonnet about Beauty

To start, a sonnet is made up of fourteen lines.  They may or may not rhyme!  Sonnets are categorized into Shakespearean and Petrarch sonnets.  Shakespearean sonnets are characterized by three quatrains and then a couplet whereas Petrarch sonnets are characterized by one octet and one sestet.  Petrarch sonnets are typically very love-y and exaggerate the beauty of women.  Shakespearean sonnets, however, are more realistic and honest.

My sonnet is by Samuel Daniel.  It is in his Beauty, Time, and Love Sonnets.

Beauty, sweet Love, is like the morning dew,
Whose short refresh upon the tender green
Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show,
And straight ’tis gone as it had never been.	60
Soon doth it fade that makes the fairest flourish,
Short is the glory of the blushing rose;
The hue which thou so carefully dost nourish,
Yet which at length thou must be forced to lose.
When thou, surcharged with burthen of thy years,	65
Shalt bend thy wrinkles homeward to the earth;
And that, in Beauty’s Lease expired, appears
The Date of Age, the Calends of our Death—
But ah, no more!—this must not be foretold,
For women grieve to think they must be old.	70