“All The World’s A Stage” is a sonnet from William Shakespeare play titled “As You Like It.” This poem is an iambic pentameter, and although there is no rhyme scheme this poem does consists of many poetic devices. To begin with, this poem describes the stages of life. It compares life to being a play, which is played by men and women. The poet emphasizes that the seven stages of life are like the seven acts of a play; because of this comparison it shows Shakespeare 's deep knowledge of human life. In the first few lines, the poet compares the world to a stage and all men and women are actors/actresses. We all enter the stage but we all have different ways of exiting. When we enter, we are born and when we exist, we die. Everyone goes through these life events which are called the seven ages. The seven ages are; an infant, a schoolboy, finding a lover, becoming a soldier, a wise justice, an old man, and finally second childhood/death. The first age of one’s life is infancy, and during this stage, one cries and pukes in the nurse 's arms, also known as a mother’s arm. Then onto boyhood, when school starts and he complains all the time. Next, the third age, he is now grown up and attracts a lover. Afterwards, he becomes a soldier and takes strange oaths, grows a beard, becomes jealous in honor and is very sudden and quick, like a leopard. He looks for temporary reputation and fame, and to achieve so he is ready to go into the mouth of a gun. The fifth