Sonnet 47 in line 14 of "Sonnet 47" but they do not refer there to the "defendant". In "Sonnet 24" both singular and plural are used to refer to the eyes of the speaker. Sonnet 47 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, which contains three quatrains followed by a final couplet for a total of fourteen lines. It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form, "abab cdcd efef gg" and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions per line. The final line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: Lines two and
Sonnet 103 Sonnet 103 Sonnet 103 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 poet says that his feeble lines cannot do justice to the subject's beauty, but merely mar it with their own inadequacy. The poet's only achievements are the result of that beauty, which is much more clearly visible simply by looking in a mirror. Sonnet 103 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final