Sonnet 139 Sonnet 139 Sonnet 139 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Sonnet 139 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form "abab cdcd efef gg" and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The 6th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: Line 3 begins with a common metrical variation, an initial reversal: Initial reversals also occur in lines 5 and 14, and
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