Summary. Dante's The Divine Comedy has intrigued critics and readers alike for several centuries. Virgil guides Dante through hell in Inferno, where sinners hopelessly endure contrabassoon as eternal punishment of their sins.
Sonnet 19 is one of the more than a hundred sonnets published by William Shakespeare in 1609.
It is considered a typical Shakespearean or English sonnet because of:
-The use of three quatrains (a stanza or poem consisting of four lines) followed by a couple (two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre). Here is an example of a rhyming couple from Sonnet 18
<em>So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
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<em>So long lives this and this gives life to thee.</em>
-It follows the typical rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg
-The widespread use of iambic pentameter based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. For example, "<em>But I forbid thee one more heinous crime"</em> (19.8).
