A sonnet is a poem that is written in a certain format, the format includes 14 lines, a strict rhyme scheme, Written in iambic Pentameter (includes 10 beats/syllables in each line of text). The Sonnets are Shakespeare's most popular work, Shakespeare wrote 154 of sonnets and are the most widely read sonnets in all of English literature.
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 gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. I think that this sonnet portrays how great and beautiful life are and sometime we can take that for granted as we tend to focus on all the negative things going on in our lives but struggle to realize that there are many great things in our lives as well.