Sonnet 111 reversal and a final extrametrical syllable or "feminine ending": Lines 12, 13, and 14 also have feminine endings. Lines 8, 13, and 14 also have initial reversals, and they potentially occur in lines 1, 3, and 9. The meter demands that line 14's "even" function as one syllable. Sonnet 111 Sonnet 111 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. The youth chides the goddess of fortune for providing for the poet nothing better
Sonnet 63 as he, the poet, is now. The passing of time will drain the young man’s blood, carve wrinkles in his face, erode and wear away all of his beauty. Time will eventually take away the young man. To prevent the young man’s beauty being cut from memory, this sonnet will be read and will preserve the memory of the young man’s beauty. Unlike Sonnet 2, in which immortality is gained through procreation, here it is gained in the reading of this poem ("these black lines"). Sonnet 63 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed