 Sonnet 61 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, containing three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, 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 seventh line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter