Complex sentence: The poem follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, "abab cdcd efef gg" and like other Shakespearean sonnets is written in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions per line.
Split into simpler sentences: The poem follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, "abab cdcd efef gg". Like many of the other poems in the sequence, Sonnet 37 is written in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre consisting of five pairs of unstressed/stressed syllables per line.