Sonnet 113 his outer vision false. Sonnet 113 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form "abab cdcd efef gg" and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The 11th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: Indeed, all fourteen lines may be scanned regularly, excepting the final extrametrical syllables or "feminine endings" in lines 10 and 12: The meter demands a few variant pronunciations: Line 4's "effectually" functions as four syllables,
Sonnet 16 Sonnet 16 Sonnet 16 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is among those sonnets referred to as the procreation sonnets, within the Fair Youth sequence. Although the previous sonnet, Sonnet 15, does not overtly discuss procreation, Sonnet 16 opens with "But..." and goes on to make the encouragement clear. The two poems form a diptych. In Sonnet 16, the speaker asks the young man why he does not actively fight against time and age by having a child. Sonnet 16 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. This type of sonnet consists