Sonnet 29 Sonnet 29 Sonnet 29 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126 in the accepted numbering stemming from the first edition in 1609). In the sonnet, the speaker bemoans his status as an outcast and failure but feels better upon thinking of his beloved. Sonnet 29 is written in the typical Shakespearean sonnet form, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter ending in a rhymed couplet. Sonnet 29 follows the same basic structure as Shakespeare's other sonnets, containing fourteen lines and written in
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