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 25 rhymes may have been intended to be trisyllabic: "belovèd" and "removèd", although other editors (like John Kerrigan) prefer the standard 2-syllable pronunciations. This sonnet, as originally printed, departs from the English sonnet's typical rhyme scheme, "abab cdcd efef gg". Lines 9 and 11 (the expected "e" lines) do not rhyme. These lines in the Quarto of 1609 read (with emphasis added): <poem>The painefull warrier famoſed for worth, Is from the booke of honour raſed quite,</poem> No other lines in "Shakespeare's Sonnets" fail to rhyme, and Shakespeare's typical sonnet structure demands that these lines should rhyme with each other. Most editors