Words of the heart and soul that the mind will never be able to comprehend. You were painted with my brush of ferocity on my canvas of passion and gold, beauty began to show with strokes and glitter of patience and perseverance. You were an artwork far more complex than my simple mind, a piece of heaven in this ashen dull world. I put my brush down, my canvas left on the easel and finally... you were complete.

Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman. The sonnets are almost all constructed from three quatrains, which are four-line stanzas, and a final couplet composed in iambic pentameter. This is also the meter used extensively in Shakespeare's plays. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. Sonnets using this scheme are known as Shakespearean sonnets. Often, the beginning of the third quatrain marks the volta ("turn"), or the line in which the mood of the poem shifts, and the poet expresses a revelation or epiphany.