Sonnet 18 this sonnet: it is not the actual young man who will be eternalized, but the description of him contained in the poem, and the poem contains scant or no description of the young man, but instead contains vivid and lasting descriptions of a summer day; which the young man is supposed to outlive. Sonnet 18 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter: three quatrains followed by a couplet. It also has the characteristic rhyme scheme: "abab cdcd efef gg". The poem reflects the rhetorical tradition of an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet. Petrarchan sonnets typically
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