Sonnet 50
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Sonnet 50 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. It is continued in Sonnet 51.
Structure
Sonnet 50 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, containing three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet. 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 per line. The first line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter:
× / × / × / × / × / How heavy do I journey on the way, (50.1)
- / = ictus, a metrically strong syllabic position. × = nonictus.
The meter demands some variant pronunciations of words. In line seven, the second syllable is stressed in "instínct".[1] In line five "tired" is two syllables, and in line eight "being" is one.
Interpretations
- Gemma Jones, for the 2002 compilation album, When Love Speaks (EMI)
Notes
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- ↑ Kerrigan 1995, p 234.
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Further reading
Template:Shakespeare sonnets bibliography
External links
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