Sonnet 39 Sonnet 39 Sonnet 39 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 39 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, composed of three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet for a total of fourteen lines. It follows the rhyme scheme, "abab cdcd efef gg". It is written in iambic pentameter, a metre based on five pairs of syllables accented weak/strong. The second line is one example of a line of regular iambic pentameter: The
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