= ictus, a metrically strong syllabic position. The eighth line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter:īut I forbid thee one most heinous crime: (19.8) Like all but one of Shakespeare's sonnets, Sonnet 19 is written in a type of metre called iambic pentameter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The English sonnet consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet. Sonnet 19 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet. Though there is compunction in the implication that the young man himself will not survive time's effects, because redemption brought by the granting of everlasting youth is not actual, but rather ideal or poetic. The theme is redemption, through poetry, of time's inevitable decay. The poem casts time in the role of a poet holding an “antique pen”. The sonnet addresses time directly, as it allows time its great power to destroy all things in nature, but the poem forbids time to erode the young man's fair appearance. It is considered by some to be the final sonnet of the initial procreation sequence. Sonnet 19 is one of 154 sonnets published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609.
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