It sounds something like da-DUM, da-DUM.Īs is common in William Shakespeare’s poems, the last two lines are a rhyming pair, known as a couplet. The first is unstressed and the second stressed. This means that each line contains five sets of two beats, known as metrical feet. Aside from this, the sonnet is traditional in every other way. The “E” rhymes, which are perfect in every other sonnet do not in this original version of the text, rhyme. In a singular departure from this poem, the poem does not follow the usually consistent rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The poem is made up of three quatrains, or sets of four lines, and one concluding couplet, or set of two rhyming lines. ‘Sonnet 25’ by William Shakespeare is a fourteen-line sonnet that is structured in the form known as a “Shakespearean” or English sonnet. The love the Fair Youth and the speaker share is going to last forever. Like a marigold flower, these people will die when the sun no longer shines on them. Those who have awards, power, and many friends only have them temporarily. The speaker addresses the Fair Youth telling him that the love they have is far more important than who the stars or sun are shining on at any one time. ‘Sonnet 25’ by William Shakespeare is a clever love poem that compares the speaker’s permanent love to fleeting moments of fame. Great princes’ favourites their fair leaves spreadĪnd in themselves their pride lies buried,Īnd all the rest forgot for which he toiled: Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars Let those who are in favour with their stars Those which are physical and metaphorical, tapping into themes of the fleeting nature of fame and the strength of love. In this particular poem, the poet makes references to the stars. It is part of the well-loved Fair Youth sequence of sonnets (numbers one through one hundred twenty-six). ‘ Sonnet 25,’ also known as ‘ Let those who are in favour with their stars’ is number twenty-five of one hundred fifty-four sonnets that Shakespeare wrote over his lifetime.
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