Sonnet 39 a pleasant opportunity to think on love, and, absence, you teach "one" to be not solitary but to be "two," by praising the young man where I am, though he continues to be elsewhere (hence).” Sonnet 39 Sonnet 39 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 39 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, composed of three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet for a total of fourteen lines. It follows the rhyme
Sonnet 119 number of lines (5, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 12) feature a final extrametrical syllable or "feminine ending", as for example: Line 7 (above) also features an initial reversal, and potentially a mid-line reversal. Other potential initial reversals occur in lines 6, 8, and 13, while potential mid-line reversals occur in lines 9 and 11. The meter demands that line 6's "blessèd" is pronounced as two syllables. Sonnet 119 Sonnet 119 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love