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That's the opening of Shakespeare's Sonnet 55, which is a love poem with a bit of a twist. Shakespeare very cleverly made the underlying meaning of the poem an extended boast about what a great poet and writer he was, by using the device of comparing his beloved's beauty to the immortality of his own poetry.
Try getting away with that in your creative writing class.
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