The first two lines in Shakespeare's poem A Lover's Complaint are: "From off a hill whose concave womb reworded. A plaintful story from a sist'ring vale"
Now is the winter of our discontent.
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The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest and Macbeth in that order.
The actors who needed to learn their lines. And even they didn't have to read the whole play, just the part they were in. More recently, schoolchildren have to read the plays as part of their English Language courses.
Lines 1 to 12 of a sonnet are virtually the whole poem, which is only 14 lines long. In this case, the last two lines can be paraphrased as "That's true, you know." so in effect the first twelve lines are the whole poem. This poem is not about love which grows. It is about love which endures. It "alters not", it is "an ever fixed mark" and is "never shaken". This unchanging love which he describes does not grow because things which grow change, and the love to which he refers, the "marriage of true minds", does not change at all and never will.
Now is the winter of our discontent.
juliretdaesgqriff does.
From off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sistering vale
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The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest and Macbeth in that order.
"A pair of star-crossed lovers . . . do with their deaths bury their parents' strife." Oddly enough, the answer to your question is in the first 14 lines of the play.
Some famous lines from Shakespeare's plays that are still commonly used today include "To be, or not to be: that is the question" from Hamlet, "All the world's a stage" from As You Like It, and "To thine own self be true" from Hamlet.
The actors who needed to learn their lines. And even they didn't have to read the whole play, just the part they were in. More recently, schoolchildren have to read the plays as part of their English Language courses.
The poet uses an ABAB rhyme scheme in the first 8 lines of the poem. This means that the first and third lines rhyme, as do the second and fourth lines.
The first eight lines of a sonnet are called the octave.
The 'head' command will list out certain number of lines in a file from the beginning. The standard is to list the first 25 lines, but you can change that: head -100 myfile will list out the first 100 lines of myfile.
Yes a sonnet consist out of 14 lines the first four aound like the second four and the first part of the last 6 lines(3 lines) sounds like the last 3 lines there is also a twist beteen the first 8 and last 6 lines