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Sonnet 2 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, which consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet. It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme : ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Like all but one sonnet in the sequence, it is written in iambic pentameter , a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions:
Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow. By William Shakespeare. When forty winters shall besiege thy brow. And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field, Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tattered weed, of small worth held. Then being asked where all thy beauty lies—.
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The primary source of Shakespeare's sonnets is a quarto published in 1609 titled Shake-speare's Sonnets. It contains 154 sonnets, which are followed by the long poem "A Lover's Complaint". Thirteen copies of the quarto have survived in fairly good shape.
Sonnet 2: ‘When forty winters shall besiege thy brow’ by William Shakespeare is a traditional fourteen-line sonnet. The poem is structured in the form which has come to be synonymous with the poet’s name. It made up of three quatrains, or sets of four lines, and one concluding couplet or set of two rhyming lines.
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The 1609 Quarto sonnet 2 version. WHen fortie Winters ſhall beſeige thy brow, And digge deep trenches in thy beauties field, Thy youthes proud liuery ſo gaz’d on now, Wil be a totter’d weed of ſmal worth held: Then being askt,where all thy beautie lies, Where all the treaſure of thy luſty daies; To ſay within thine owne deepe ſunken ...
Actually understand Shakespeare's Sonnets Sonnet 2. Read every line of Shakespeare’s original text alongside a modern English translation.
Jul 31, 2015 · Sonnet 2. 2. Synopsis: The poet challenges the young man to imagine two different futures, one in which he dies childless, the other in which he leaves behind a son. In the first, the young man will waste the uninvested treasure of his youthful beauty.
