"Bright Star" is a sonnet written by the Romantic poet John Keats as a homage to his beloved Fanny Brawne.
It is primarily made up of two analogies. The first analogy is a negative one, where the poet describes the aspect of the star that he doesn’t wish to resemble. The second analogy is a positive one, where the poet explains the aspect of the star that he aspires to be like — namely, steadfast loyalty to his beloved.
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Formally it is a Shakespearean sonnet, composed of three quatrains (or four-line verses) rhyming ABAB, and a final rhyming couplet to give the total of fourteen lines. Like many of Keats’s poems, "Bright Star" contrasts ideas of beauty and transience, pleasure and suffering.
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