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 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