In ‘Sonnet 114,’ William Shakespeare engages with themes of love/devotion as well as experience. He considers the world through his speaker’s eyes, seeing everything, … See more

‘Sonnet 114’ by William Shakespeare is a fourteen-line sonnet that follows a consistent rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. It is written in iambic pentameter… See more

Shakespeare makes use of several poetic techniques in‘Sonnet 114’. These include but are not limited to examples: 1. Caesura: occurs when the poet inserts a pause into the middle … See more

Lines 1-4
In the first lines of ‘Sonnet 114,’ the speaker begins by picking up on the same ideas he’d concluded within the previous sonnet. He was pre… See more