Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd.
The poem is an example of:
AParampariterupaka (consequential metaphor), because here the superimposition, undermined by a resemblance, is the cause of another superimposition
BNirangarupaka (entire metaphor), because here the upameya is superimposed by the upamana together with its subordinate parts
CMalarupaka (serial metaphor), because here the upameya is superimposed by a series of upamanas
DMishritarupaka (mixed metaphor), because here the common attribute, the words implying comparison, the upamana and the upameya are all expressed
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