Sonnet 92
Sonnet 92 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 92 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, ' and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre The metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) (from the French unit , from the Greek noun , "measure"), symbol m, is the primary unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), though its prefi ... based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The 5th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: × / × / × / × / × / Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs, (92.5) :/ = ''ictus'', a metrically strong syllabic position. × = ''nonict ...
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