Sonnet 49
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Sonnet 49 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.
Structure
Sonnet 49 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet, for a total of fourteen lines. It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, and is written in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. Line thirteen exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter:
× / × / × / × / × / To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws, (49.13)
- / = ictus, a metrically strong syllabic position. × = nonictus.
Line ten's "desert" would have been for Shakespeare a full rhyme with "part", as is suggested by the Quarto's spelling, "desart".[1]
Notes
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- ↑ Kerrigan 1995, p 233.
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Further reading
Template:Shakespeare sonnets bibliography
External links
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