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 …showed first 75 words of 866 total…

…showed last 75 words of 866 total…of love that he could have written. Works Cited Poetry: A Pocket Anthology Third Edition, R.S. Gwynn "Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare, 1609 My Professor did not agree with my interpretation of the poem, he saw it as only a parody. However he said that I supported my view well enough. Actually I was trying to fill space and I still didn't make three full pages. There are a few Minor gramatical errors, but not many.