Reread the first four lines of "sonnet 18" two or three times out loud. 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 –"sonnet 18," william shakespeare which features of this sonnet will you memorize it? check all that apply. there are ten syllables in each line. the first four lines repeat. every other line rhymes. every other line has the same first word. the four lines are a comparison between a person and the features of summer