This poem follows the typical rhyme scheme of the English sonnet, "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 per line.
This poem follows the typical rhyme scheme of the English sonnet, "abab cdcd efef gg". It is largely composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre in which there are five pairs of unstressed/stressed syllables per line.