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SONNET 116

-William Shakespeare
SONNET 116
It consists of 14 lines,
and is split into 3
stanzas with 4 lines
(quatrain) each and a
2 lines (couplet)
Poem Dictionary

• Impediment- problem
• Alter- change
• Tempest- storm
• Bark- small ship
• Sickle- a sharp curved tool for cutting grass
• Compass- reach
• Doom- last day or end of the world
1ST QUATRAIN
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.

Shakespeare uses the metaphor of marriage to compare it to true,


real love. He is saying that there is no reason why two people who
truly love should not be together; nothing should stand in their way.
Don’t let problems break up true love. And that love is unchanging,
doesn’t move or bend when it hits obstacles; it remains unaffected
1 QUATRAIN
ST

Lesson:

True love conquers all.


2ND QUATRAIN
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love is a mark (in time) which never goes away. It acts as


a constant guide to navigate through life, just like sailors
use the stars to find their way.
2 ND
QUATRAIN
Lesson:

Love’s worth is unknown


but it can be measured.
3RD QUATRAIN
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Love doesn’t get destroyed by time. Death will


certainly come, but that will not stop love. It may kill
the lover, but the love itself is eternal.
3 QUATRAIN
RD

Lesson:

Love stays forever.


COUPLET
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Shakespeare is telling his reader that if someone


proves he is wrong about love, then he never wrote
the following words, and no man ever loved.
COUPLET
Lesson:

His writing is eternal;


Love is eternal

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