Sonnet 148 the fourth ictus (resulting in a four-position figure, codice_1, sometimes referred to as a "minor ionic"), and line 3 has a mid-line reversal and (potentially) and initial reversal: Initial reversals also potentially occur in lines 7, 8, and 11, with a potential mid-line reversal in line 1. Potential minor ionics occur in lines 6, 9, 10, and 14. Sonnet 148 Sonnet 148 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is considered a Dark Lady sonnet, as are all from 127 to 152. Sonnet 148 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English
Sonnet 54 scheme of the English sonnet, "abab cdcd efef gg" and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of metre in which each line has five feet, and each foot has two syllables that are accented weak/strong. The fifth line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: The sixth and eighth lines end with feminine endings. Sonnet 54 by William Shakespeare is divided into three quatrains and one heroic couplet. The first two quatrains work together, illustrating both the scentless canker bloom and the scented rose. In the first two lines of the first quatrain he says that beauty seems more beauteous as