Love never fades. Looks will fade but even if someone loves you looks shouldn't matter to them. They will love you anyway. That is the general feel from one of the most popular sonnets ever. This is written by William Shakespeare, Sonnet eighteen, one of the most popular sonnets of Shakespeare's one hundred and fifty four sonnets. This sonnet tells of how Shakespeare's love had the power to immortalize his significant other. He uses numerous literary elements in the sonnet, such as personification, rhyme, and biblical reference. He uses this to tell the how much he loves his significant other. For the first literary device that Shakespeare uses it is personification. He starts with in line one "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,  he is giving heaven qualities of a person. He is talking about the sun is sometimes too hot meaning that summer days aren't as pretty as others. In particular he is saying that someday are hotter than others making them less enjoyable. The reason that this is important to this sonnet is because it is saying that summer days are ugly compared to his significant other. Then he says in line nine, "But thy eternal summer shall not fade . Which means that time moves on and his significant other will get old and lose their beauty, but to him they will always be the same young and beautiful person that he will love forever. For the second literary devices he uses rhyme throughout the entire sonnet. Without rhyme there is no way it could even be classified as a sonnet because a sonnet is a fourteen line poem that has to have a strict rhyme scheme and structure. I feel like that sonnet would not be nearly as good as it is with the rhyme. The rhyme scheme for the sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg, which means that the first line and the third line will rhyme and the second and the fourth line will rhyme and the same thing with the second and third quatrain. For Shakespeare's biblical reference he says in line ele