This is a Spenserian sonnet composed of three interconnected quatrains and a couplet. It is composed in iniambic pentameter and features an ABAB BCBC CDCD EE rhyme pattern. Sonnet 75's key themes are immortality and love. The lyrical voice's endeavor to immortalize his loved one is depicted in the opening quatrain. This effort is contrasted with the lover's mortality in the closing couplet. Sonnet 75 was written for a woman named Penelope. She was married to Ulysses, who was traveling around Greece when he received word that his wife had been killed by a giant serpent in Ireland. Heartbroken, he decided to go to Ithaca where she lived with their children. Upon his arrival there, he was given another chance at life because someone had turned in a shield for repair. This person assumed that Ulysses was the owner of the shield since it had fallen off of his own back while fighting the snake. Thus, he or she gave him another opportunity to win Penelope's heart before it was too late. This poem was probably written sometime after 1598 when Edmund Spenser published Book 4 of The Faerie Queene which included a poem called "A View of the World." In this work, Spenser describes how mankind attempts to escape death through fame and honor but can't avoid its grasp forever. Another famous poet who used iniambic pentameter was John Milton.