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Sonnet 150 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is considered a Dark Lady sonnet, as are all from 127 to 152. Nonetheless 150 is an outlier, and in some ways appears to belong more to the Fair Youth. [2]
Sonnet 150 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 12th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter:
× / × / × / × / × / With others thou shouldst not abhor my state: (150.12)
The 5th line (potentially) begins with a common metrical variant, an initial reversal; and it ends with the rightward movement of the fourth ictus (resulting in a four-position figure, × × / /
, sometimes referred to as a minor ionic):
/ × × / × / × × / / Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill, (150.5)
Lines 1, 8, and 11 also potentially have initial reversals, and line 3 has a minor ionic.
The meter demands that line 1's "power" function as one syllable, and "powerful" as two. [3]
Sonnet 150 | |||||||
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![]() Sonnet 150 in the 1609 Quarto | |||||||
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Sonnet 150 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is considered a Dark Lady sonnet, as are all from 127 to 152. Nonetheless 150 is an outlier, and in some ways appears to belong more to the Fair Youth. [2]
Sonnet 150 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 12th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter:
× / × / × / × / × / With others thou shouldst not abhor my state: (150.12)
The 5th line (potentially) begins with a common metrical variant, an initial reversal; and it ends with the rightward movement of the fourth ictus (resulting in a four-position figure, × × / /
, sometimes referred to as a minor ionic):
/ × × / × / × × / / Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill, (150.5)
Lines 1, 8, and 11 also potentially have initial reversals, and line 3 has a minor ionic.
The meter demands that line 1's "power" function as one syllable, and "powerful" as two. [3]