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William ShakespeareSonnet 116Geschke/British Literature
Shakespeare Sonnet 116
Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare Sonnet 116
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What is the poet saying?Quatrain 1Let 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.
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Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare Sonnet 116
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Quatrain 1Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare Sonnet 116
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Quatrain 1Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare Sonnet 116
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Quatrain 2Oh no! It is an ever-fixd mark That looks on tempests
and is never shaken. It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose
worths unknown, although his height be taken.
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Quatrain 2Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare Sonnet 116
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Quatrain 3Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickles compass come. Love alters not with his
brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of
doom.
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Quatrain 3Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare Sonnet 116
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CoupletGeschke/British Literature Shakespeare Sonnet 116
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How does he go about saying it?Geschke/British Literature
Shakespeare Sonnet 116
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Meter
Oh no! It is an ever fixd mark
Iambic PentameterGeschke/British Literature Shakespeare Sonnet
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MetaphorComparing love to things that remain
constantSeamarkNorth Star
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ImageryNautical Imageryever-fixed marktempestswandering
barkstarhis height be taken
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PersonificationLoves not Times fool/within his bending sickles
compass come (9-10)Time is personified as the grim reaper
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Geschke/British Literature Shakespeare Sonnet 116
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