The first is unstressed and the second stressed. This means that each line contains five sets of two beats, known as metrical feet. The poem follows a consistent rhyme scheme that conforms to the pattern of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG and it is written in iambic pentameter. It made up of three quatrains, or sets of four lines, and one concluding couplet, or set of two rhyming lines. ‘When I consider every thing that grows’ by William Shakespeare is a fourteen-line sonnet that is structured in the traditional English form, a form that is also known as “Shakespearean”. He knows that old age is coming soon and since the youth won’t have children he is going to fight a war against time for him with sonnets such as these. These are all to do with the youth and his eventual death and decay. The speaker addresses the youth, informing him about some thoughts he has been experiencing lately. ‘When I consider every thing that grows’ by William Shakespeare is a love poem directed at the Fair Youth about whom the speaker is very concerned.
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