"Sonnet 101" by William Shakespeare

Ok, let's finish these sonnets already. I tried many times to record "Venus and Adonis", but the quality of the words did not fit at all with the iambic pentameter used, and I could never make it sound good, or even just not terrible. I finally had to give up. While I greatly respect Shakespeare as a playwright, I am increasingly disappointed with his ability as a poet... Regardless, I will complete the sonnets whether or not I can bother with the rest of his poems.

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O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends
For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?
Both truth and beauty on my love depends;
So dost thou too, and therein dignified.
Make answer, Muse: wilt thou not haply say,
"Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd;
Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;
But best is best, if never intermix'd"?
Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?
Excuse not silence so, for't lies in thee
To make him much outlive a gilded tomb
And to be praised of ages yet to be.
Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how
To make him seem long hence as he shows now.