Sonnet 35 Sonnet 35 Shakespeare's Sonnet 35 is part of the Fair Youth sequence, commonly agreed to be addressed to a young man; more narrowly, it is part of a sequence running from 33 to 42, in which the speaker considers a sin committed against him by the young man, which the speaker struggles to forgive. Sonnet 35 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has fourteen lines, divided into three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet. It follows the form's rhyme scheme: "abab cdcd efef gg", and is written in a type of metre called iambic pentameter based on
Sonnet 131 Sonnet 131 Sonnet 131 is a sonnet written by William Shakespeare and was first published in a 1609 quarto edition titled "Shakespeare's sonnets". It is a part of the "Dark Lady" sequence (consisting of sonnets 127–52), which are addressed to an unknown woman usually assumed to possess a dark complexion. The sonnet, like the others in this sequence, addresses the "Dark Lady" as if a mistress. It references allegations from unspecified others that her "black" complexion makes her unattractive and rebuts these, but in the final two lines turns the compliment into a backhanded one by admitting that "In nothing