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Read on. The anapest is sometimes substituted for the iambus. A metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is called an iambus a foot composed of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable is called a trochee and a foot composed of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable is called an anapest. Every other line of the first three quatrains rhyme with each other. Shakespeare didn’t invent the form, but he did help popularise it. The Earl of Southampton: Shakespeare's PatronĪlchemy and Astrology in Shakespeare's DayĪre Shakespeare's Sonnets Autobiographical?ĭid You Know?. The rhyme scheme in Sonnet 130, like in other Shakespearean sonnets, is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. A sonnet is a poem of 14 lines that follows a strict rhyming pattern. King James I of England: Shakespeare's Patron Stratford School Days: What Did Shakespeare Read? My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:Īnd yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare That music hath a far more pleasing sound I love to hear her speak, yet well I know Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,Īnd in some perfumes is there more delight If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Coral is far more red than her lips' red If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Ĭoral is far more red than her lips' red Shakespeare Sonnet 130 - My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun