Shakespeare's sonnet # 73 is written in the Shakespearean sonnet style consisting of three quatrains

and one couplet.Each quatrain,written in iambic pentameter has it's own rhyme scheme;rhyming in

alternating lines.The couplet usually summarizes the preceeding twelve lines.

In Sonnet 73 one will realize Shakespeare follows the classic pattern of the iambic pentameter with a

slight variation; the poet utilizes the "spondaic foot" or heavey stress in the beginning of the fourth

line in each of the quatrains. (quatrain 1 "Bare ruined choirs..." , quatrain 2 "Death's second...." , quatrain

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