Sonnet 110 actors. Whereas others have interpreted sonnet 110 as the poet confessing his love to a young man. The sonnet is a confession of the poets committed sins and promiscuity, which quickly escalates to his confession of love to the young man. With Shakespeare's heavy use of double meanings to words have scholars perplexed as to whether the sonnet is about Shakespeare's career as an actor or a confession of love to the young man. The sonnet is written in traditional Shakespearean sonnet form consisting of 14 lines with Iambic Pentameter and ending with a couplet. The poet confesses to profligate
Sonnet 19 himself will not survive time’s effects, because redemption brought by the granting of everlasting youth is not actual, but rather ideal or poetic. Sonnet 19 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet. It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme: "abab cdcd efef gg". Like all but one of Shakespeare's sonnets, Sonnet 19 is written in a type of metre called iambic pentameter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The eighth line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: Both the first and third lines exhibit reversals which thrust