The Shakespearean sonnets are considered to be some of the most beautiful and powerful poems in English literature (Magill 6170).
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 98 has a 4-6-2-2 pattern. The sonnet uses a double couplet structure (Vendler 420). Almost all of Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into 3 quatrains. Each quatrain has alternately rhyming lines, followed by a concluding couplet (Magill 6171).
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 98 is about “shadow and substance” Sonnets 53 and 101 are also about “shadow and substance” (Magill 2531).
Shakespeare’s sonnets can be divided into 2 groups. S