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Sonnet 7 world yet the sun stays the same. The sun is reliable and unchanging. To the sun, one man is the same to another is the same to another. Sonnet 7 Sonnet 7 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. Sonnet 7 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet. This type of sonnet consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet, and follows the form's rhyme scheme: "abab cdcd efef gg". The sonnet is written in iambic pentameter, a type of metre based on