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 25 rhymes may have been intended to be trisyllabic: "belovèd" and "removèd", although other editors (like John Kerrigan) prefer the standard 2-syllable pronunciations. This sonnet, as originally printed, departs from the English sonnet's typical rhyme scheme, "abab cdcd efef gg". Lines 9 and 11 (the expected "e" lines) do not rhyme. These lines in the Quarto of 1609 read (with emphasis added): <poem>The painefull warrier famoſed for worth, Is from the booke of honour raſed quite,</poem> No other lines in "Shakespeare's Sonnets" fail to rhyme, and Shakespeare's typical sonnet structure demands that these lines should rhyme with each other. Most editors