How Does Shakespeare Rhyme Scheme

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Shakespearean sonnets usually follow a rhyme scheme and in this particular sonnet the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The final rhyming couplet contains the turn of thought when he expresses his love for her. The first 12 lines are devoted to describing the more unattractive features of his mistress but the last two lines contrast this by saying “and yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare.” Which means he sees her beauty despite all her flaws and he loves her nonetheless. The use of hyperbole in this sonnet is used in a mockery of other poets’ when they use hyperbole to compare their love to the typical beautiful things that emphasise how beautiful their love is. Shakespeare intentionally undermines

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an end. The couplet serves to support the speaker by describing the growing importance of love. Shakespeare employs metaphors, structure of a sonnet, and personifications in order to further justify the themes of dead and strength of love. The poet’s utilizes metaphors in order to substantiate the themes of death and love. In the first quatrain, the speaker is compared to the yellow leaves. Shakespeare reveals this metaphor when the poem states, “When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang/Upon…

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parts: what love doesn’t do, what love is and what love does. This is all shown with the use of simplistic language and a rhyme scheme of ‘abab’. In the first quatrain, the speaker is defining love by what it doesn’t do, which in this case, is that it doesn’t change even if it finds change in the one it loves. The entirety of the sonnet is in iambic pentameter, which is common for Shakespeare, as it gives it a pace which makes the rhyme scheme more prominent, especially when read aloud. Despite this…

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