Sonnet 116
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- Created on: 12-05-17 19:10
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- Sonnet 116
- William Shakespeare
- sonnet
- Shakespearean
- 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet
- each stanza has a change
- rhyming couplet has a sardonic, witty ending
- " If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved
- regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language
- self assured
- " If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved
- 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet
- Petrachan
- sestet
- octave
- 14 lines
- love
- death
- passing of time
- ABAB rhyme scheme
- Shakespearean
- language
- "marriage of true mindes admit impediments"
- poet's pleasure of being in love, always constant and strong even if something goes wrong
- "which alters when it alteration findes"
- can't change when faults are found
- whole stanza is an illusion to the marriage ceremony with wedding vows
- "or bends with the remover to remove"
- "deviation is cheating"
- "oh no it is an ever fixed marke"
- illusion to lighthouses echoes Othello
- "Be not afraid though you do see me weaponed, here is my journey's end, here as my **** and very sea mark of my utmost sail"
- Act 5 Scene 2
- change in tempo
- illusion to lighthouses echoes Othello
- "lookes on tempests and is never shaken"
- can withstand any problem
- "it is the star to every wandring barke"
- guiding star/ polaris for boats
- whose worth unknown although his hight be taken
- priceless
- never appreciate value
- Love's not Times foole
- personnification
- gives both love and time power
- Hour by Carol Ann Duffy
- Love's not Time's beggar
- not at mercy of physical features
- personnification
- "rosie lips and cheeks with his bending sickles compasse come"
- enduirng, time is cruel and powerful ut love can take it on
- "breefe houres and weeekes"
- endures till the end of time
- "beares it lout teven to the edge of doome"
- endures till the end of time
- "marriage of true mindes admit impediments"
- other poems
- Whoso list to hount
- To his Coy Mistress
- Ae fond kiss
- Remember
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