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Sonnet 54 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet.This poem follows the rhyme scheme of the English sonnet, abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of metre in which each line has five feet, and each foot has two syllables that are accented weak/strong.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" is a popular adage from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague. The reference is used to state that the names of things do not affect what they really are.
In that poem, the first "Rose" is the name of a person. Stein later used variations on the sentence in other writings, and the shortened form "A rose is a rose is a rose" is among her most famous quotations, often interpreted as meaning [1] "things are what they are", a statement of the law of identity, "A is A."
A Rose by Any Other Name may refer to: "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet", a quotation from the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare; A Rose by Any Other Name, an album by the country music artist Ronnie Milsap; A Rose, By Any Other Name, a music project of Josh Scogin; Rose by Any Other Name..., a modern romantic comedy film
In this week's column, author Sandy Asher walks readers through a guided poem she learned from a longtime Springfield teacher.
As Sidney Lee notes, this poem, like most Renaissance sonnets on similar themes, derives ultimately from Petrarch's sonnet 42; he cites examples from Surrey and Sidney. Edward Dowden notes a resemblance to Spenser's Amoretti 64. G. Wilson Knight connects the rose and lily of this poem to what he sees as a pattern of flower symbolism in the cycle.
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Sonnet 26 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and is a part of the Fair Youth sequence.. The sonnet is generally regarded as the end-point or culmination of the group of five preceding poems.