Renaissance+Poetry

Sonnets: A Deductive Approach [|Interactive Sonnet Program] or [|Handout]

[|Poetry Explications, Explained]

Sonnets:

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:
 * SONNET 116 **

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'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. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [|Paraphrase and Analysis of Sonnet 116]