Sonnet 11 by Shakespeare is written telling somebody that it is important for them to have children because of how much beauty and intelligence they have. The entire sonnet is basically one huge compliment, and at the end does not even appear to have a Volta, as rare as that is. Instead at the ending in the couplet, he continues his compliment when he explains mother nature carved her body as a mold to make more copies, and not let that beauty die with her.

"HereinI lives wisIdom, beaIuty andI increase:/WithoutI this, foIlly, ageI and coldI decay:/If allI were mindIed so,I the timesI should cease./And threeIscore yearI would makeI the worldI away." Shakespeare writes sonnet 11 in his most famous rhyme scheme, an abab format, this means that line 1 rhymes with like 3 and line 2 rhymes with line 4. These lines are the more pronounced example of abab in sonnet 11, "increase" in line 1 rhymes with "cease" in line 3, and "decay" in line 2 rhymes with "away" in line 4.

Overall, Sonnet 11 is certainly one of the easier to understand Shakespearean sonnets, mostly due to the lack of large or somewhat made up words. The only difficult one to figure out would be "herein" which is another contraction made by Shakespeare meaning "here in."

Shakespeare creates the rhythm in sonnet 11, by rhyming the different endings of the 14 lines of his poems, which is a common style when writing in a Shakespearean style. He does this in almost every line such as with words like "increase" and "cease," and "perish" and "cherish."

The author writes a lot about the present day and colonial times in America relating to Shakespeare, but he leaves a wide gap in the history that makes him as popular as he still is today.

I couldn't tell from the title alone what this article was going to be about, what about Shakespeare's writing made him American. But some way through the second paragraph it is made obvious that just simply the fame he has in America, sets him in stone into our culture.