Sonnet 47 in line 14 of "Sonnet 47" but they do not refer there to the "defendant". In "Sonnet 24" both singular and plural are used to refer to the eyes of the speaker. Sonnet 47 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, which contains three quatrains followed by a final couplet for a total of fourteen lines. It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form, "abab cdcd efef gg" and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions per line. The final line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: Lines two and
Sonnet 152 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 12th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: The 2nd line has a final extrametrical syllable or "feminine ending": Lines 4, 5, 7, 9, and 11 also have feminine endings. Line 10 begins with a common metrical variant, an initial reversal: An initial reversal potentially occurs in line 11, and mid-line reversals potentially occur in lines 7 and 9. Sonnet 152 Sonnet 152 is