Sonnet 42
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Sonnet 42 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a part of the Fair Youth section of the sonnets addressed to an unnamed young man.
Sonnet 42 in the 1609 Quarto
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A sonnet is a fixed poetic form with a structure traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme. The term derives from the Italian word sonetto. Originating in 13th-centur
Sonnet 42
…my sake. But there is one consolation in this thought: my friend and I are one; therefore she loves me alone. Sonnet 42 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. This type of sonnet consists of three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG…
The first five sonnets of Petrarch's Il Canzoniere
The Sonnet by William Mulready, 1839
D. G. Rossetti's illuminated description of the sonnet, 1880