Sonnet 49 Sonnet 49 Sonnet 49 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 49 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet, for a total of fourteen lines. It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, "abab cdcd efef gg" and is written in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. Line thirteen exemplifies a regular
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