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Sonnet 91 than anyone else. But I am also cursed in only a single thing: that if you stop loving me, I will become the most wretched person. Sonnet 91 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 11th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: The sonnet abounds with metrical variants. Lines 5 and 7 have a final