Sonnet 18

eighteenth of 154 by William Shakespeare
VisualArtwork literary_work Q2527863
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Sonnet 18

Summary

Sonnet 18 is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (607 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sonnet 18 authored William Shakespeare[3].
  • Sonnet 18 is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Sonnet 18's instance of is recorded as literary work[5].
  • Sonnet 18's follows is recorded as Sonnet 17[6].
  • Sonnet 18's followed by is recorded as Sonnet 19[7].
  • Sonnet 18's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 186336748[8].
  • Sonnet 18's GND ID is recorded as 4791870-6[9].
  • Sonnet 18's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n2017043659[10].
  • Sonnet 18's part of is recorded as Shakespeare's sonnets[11].
  • Sonnet 18's language of work or name is recorded as Early Modern English[12].
  • Sonnet 18's publication date is recorded as +1609-00-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Sonnet 18's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dp3h2[14].
  • Sonnet 18's has edition or translation is recorded as Q117602275[15].
  • Sonnet 18's spoken text audio is recorded as De-Sonett Nr. 18-wikisource.ogg[16].
  • Sonnet 18's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en-gb', 'text': 'Sonnet 18'}[17].
  • Sonnet 18's series ordinal is recorded as 18[18].
  • Sonnet 18's BBC Things ID is recorded as 8d623e59-230a-4979-8f52-b0d902aaf3da[19].
  • Sonnet 18's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"}[20].
  • Sonnet 18's BabelNet ID is recorded as 03348983n[21].
  • Sonnet 18's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.'}[22].
  • Sonnet 18's Quora topic ID is recorded as SONNET-18[23].
  • Sonnet 18's copyright status is recorded as public domain[24].
  • Sonnet 18's Genius ID is recorded as William-shakespeare-sonnet-18-annotated[25].
  • Sonnet 18's FantLab work ID is recorded as 242233[26].
  • Sonnet 18's form of creative work is recorded as poem[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Sonnet 18 authored William Shakespeare[3].

Why It Matters

Sonnet 18 ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (607 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . opensourceshakespeare.org. opensourceshakespeare.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . opensourceshakespeare.org. opensourceshakespeare.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . opensourceshakespeare.org. opensourceshakespeare.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . gutenberg.org. gutenberg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . gutenberg.org. gutenberg.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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