'marriage of true minds' - metaphor, soul mates, consonance of 'm' blends together the sentence -> creates harmony and emphasises ideas of union, emjambement, true love
'.' - caesura breaks the rhythm
'alters when it alteration finds' - repetition ->love is constant and cannot be removed, love should be unconditional and not change
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Quatrain 2
'O, no!' - caesura -> interjection
'it is an ever fixed mark' - entended metaphor throughout quatrain 2
'star' - love is fixed like a star, guids ships to their destination
'bark' - ship -> symbolises relationships and love
'his height' - personification
Navigational imagery throughout quatrain 2
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Quatrain 3
'rosy lips and cheeks' - beauty of youth eventually fades, but love doesn't
'sickle's compass come' - grim reaper, even death cannot alter love, alliteration of 'c' -> emphasises the shape of the curved sickle
'Love alters not' - repetition, love is immortal
'his brief hours' - personification
'edge of doom' - love lasts for as long as the universe lasts, hyperbole -> persuade and convince the person he is addressing the sonnet to
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Whole Poem
14 lines
3 quatrains
A rhyming couplet at the end - paradox statement -> he is confident in that what he is saying is true
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