The poem follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, "abab cdcd efef gg" and like other Shakespearean sonnets is written in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions per line.
The poem follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, "abab cdcd efef gg" and like other Shakespearean sonnets is written in iambic pentameter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions per line. Iambic pentameter is a type of poetic metre.