<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td>--William Shakespeare </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Sonnet 94 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare . It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man . </P> <P> Sonnet 94 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet . The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet . It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form, abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak / strong syllabic positions . The 6th line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: </P> <P> The 7th line exhibits two fairly common metrical variations: an initial reversal, and a final extrametrical syllable or feminine ending: </P>

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds