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Shakespeare's Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

A Shakespearean sonnet features 14 lines in iambic pentameter, structured into three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet with the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG. Sonnet 18 diverges with a...

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Shakespeare's Sonnets

The concluding couplet of Shakespeare's Sonnet 12 emphasizes the inevitability of death, symbolized by "Time's scythe," which claims all living things. The only defense against this fate is to...

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