Lines Composed on April 23, 2016, on the 400th Anniversary of His Death

"Lines Composed on April 23, 2016, on the 400th Anniversary of His Death" is a sonnet written by Wilude Scabere on 23 April 2016, and play's against William Shakespeare's Sonnet #18.

Original text
Shall I compare his language to a grave? It is more lively and more flowery. His rough-shook words refuse to be death’s slave. No tomb’s as showy or so showery. A sepulchre, though hard as rock, erodes, and shrines do often lose their lustre’s prime, while monuments, though nice, make poor abodes, and sadly catacombs decay in time. But Shakespeare’s language will not go away. Unceasingly, his lines play in the mind. They pop up even on a summer’s day. Unlike a crypt, they will not stay behind. Alas, poor Oracle, his song goes on, despite all efforts of oblivion.