"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate," (Shakespeare 1,2) This sonnet is furthermore stressing how lovely the boy seems to Shakespeare. He is saying that the boy is better than a summer's day, and that he is more tolerable than one since summer can be unbearably hot and too short.
Shakespeare also says that "every fair from fair sometime declines," (Shakespeare 7). What he means here is that all good things must come to an end. Meaning that the boy's beauty will eventually end. The next line says that nature's course will result in untrimmed beauty, such as the things we lose when we're older, like our hair, memories, etc.
The last couplet basically ends with Shakespeare saying that as long as the boy's beauty is living somehow, that he is immortal.
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