even so as foes commend.
In my opinion this person must be pretty cool if even their roachy foes are commending them.
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Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
"parts...thee...world's...view" are all stressed for emphasis on the importance of the words.
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To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:
Flower and weeds are stressed here for the effect of comparison
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And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds
The iambic pentameter is easily identified here stressing on the words "that, guess, measure, and deeds"
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In other accents do this praise confound
Confound means to surprise or confuse.
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Then, churls, their thoughts, although their eyes were kind,
Churls is the plural form of the word "Churl" which means an impolite or mean person.
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But why thy odour matcheth not thy show, The solve is this, that thou dost common grow.
The rhyme scheme follows A,B,A,B,-C,C. The ending words all rhyme in this sequence: view,mend, due, commend, crown'd, own, confound, shown, mind, deeds, kind, weeds. Then followed by the C,C: show and grow.
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In a moment of tragic irony, Shakespeare also played a bizarre part in Lincoln’s assassination. John Wilkes Booth was the brother of Edwin Booth, a popular and celebrated actor. The assassin identified Brutus in Julius Caesar as a role model in his struggle against tyranny. A letter written before the shooting in Ford’s Theatre appealed to the play’s authority. “But alas!” wrote Booth, “Caesar must bleed for it.
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