'Sonnet 79' is a poem by William Shakespeare that is about his longing for a muse. Learn about the qualities that make a poem a sonnet and analyze the sonnet's themes. Sonnet 79 A Shakespearean Sonnet is a 14-line poem that follows a rhyme scheme of three quatrains and a couplet: ...
"Sonnet 18" is the first sonnet belonging to the second group. In the poem, the speaker famously compares the young man to a summer day and then celebrates the fact that he will remain eternally youthful within the lines of the sonnet....