In Shakespeare's second sonnet, is written in iambic pentameter and follows the ABAB rhyme scheme for each of the three quatrains and an AA rhyme scheme for the final couplet. Shakespeare begins this sonnet by comparing aging to conquering a castle. The sonnet begins, "When forty winters besiege thy brow/And dig deep trenches in the field of thy beauty," (1-2), this person's face is the overgrown fortress of relentless time and age that makes slowly but surely their marks. destroy the castle. They take control through their "deep trenches", slowly demolishing a person's face. In this way, the forty years ("winters") that it takes to destroy the face are done, according to Shakespeare, through the wrinkles which he compares to the trenches around a castle. He then compares aging to clothes, he first compares the beauty of youth to magnificent clothes and says that without children he will turn into a "tottering weed of little value." (4) The person Shakespeare is talking about in this sonnet also claims that he will be lonely and depressed because he has no one to share his life with. He then goes o...