 In the first eight lines, the speaker poses a series of questions in admiration of a beloved; the last six lament the man who has not experienced love.The beloved, whose beauty Shakespeare idolizes here, is given the gift of immortality by the poet; the first two quatrains primarily address different ways in which the physical beauty of the material world inherently dims, fades, and/or falls short of ideal beauty at some point.In the third quatrain the poet presents his beloved with the gift of immortality in his lines of verse.