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Sonnet 18 — sonnet|18 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; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his… … Wikipedia
Polyptoton — Pol yp*to ton, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? having, or being in, many cases; poly s many + ? case.] (Rhet.) A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson s line, My own heart s heart, and ownest own,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
own, my — ‘What delight the words gave her,’ says Charlotte Yonge of her heroine, in The Heir of Redclyffe, when she is addressed by the man she loves as ‘my own’. ‘Own’ has long been used as an element in affectionate terms of address, emphasizing… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
