Complex sentence: It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, "abab cdcd efef gg" and 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: It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, "abab cdcd efef gg". Like many of the sonnets in the sequence, the poem is largely written in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre that contains five pairs of unstressed/stressed syllables per line.