Compare ’tween nearly equal personnel, <br />Who art almost alike in every way; <br />Compare you can’t a devil with angel <br />Or darkness with sunlight nor night with day! <br /> <br />Equate not ocean vast with small a sea; <br />The brine with sweet-smelling Rose essence; <br />How can a giant’s girth and property, <br />Ev’r match a dwarf and sense equal non-sense? <br /> <br />A Banyan-tree has mighty growth to make; <br />A shrub remains always a plant so small; <br />No one compares a puddle with a lake: <br />A pigmy horse with giraffe’s stature tall! <br /> <br />Two things of nearly similar proportions <br />Can be compared in akin situations. <br />Copyright by Dr John Celes 7-29-2000<br /><br />Dr John Celes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-on-comparison/
