Sonnet 41 three sonnets (40, 41, 42) that dwell on this betrayal of the speaker. This sonnet is also notable for the textual references made to Shakespeare's other works. The sonnet is written in the typical Shakespearean sonnet form, containing 14 lines of iambic pentameter and ending in a rhymed couplet. Shakespeare's sonnets conform to the English or Shakespearean sonnet form. The form consists of fourteen lines structured as three quatrains and a couplet, rhyming "abab cdcd efef gg" and written in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. While Shakespeare's versification maintains
Sonnet 44 a regular iambic pentameter: The sonnet is quite regular metrically (for example, a three-syllable "injurious" maintains regularity in line two), but implements a few variations, for example in the first and last lines: ...which contain, respectively, a rightward movement of the first ictus (resulting in a four-position figure, codice_1, sometimes referred to as a "minor ionic"), and a mid-line reversal ("badges"). Critics have mentioned Sonnet 44 is directly coupled to "Sonnet 45" and lacks a definite conclusion. Sonnet 44 Sonnet 44 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of