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 10 a different form. Sonnet 10 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet, and follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form: "". It is written in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions per line. Line ten exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter line: ...while the first two lines exhibit, respectively, a final extrametrical syllable (or "feminine ending"), and a likely initial reversal: Though this is not the only possible scansion of the first two lines, the extra emphasis demanded by