Not Your Typical Love Sonnet
Looking at Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare superficially it appears to be no different than any of his other works. It follows the same rhyme scheme and patterns that are characteristic of any classic Shakespearian sonnet. It is a lyric poem with very formal sounding poetic diction, arranged in a single stanza, and composed of fourteen lines patterned in three English quatrains with a heroic couplet at the end. The lines are all ten syllables, end-stopped, in an ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme. It is when you read this poem, and see how he chooses to express…
