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Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 when one person wants to break the relationship although its height can be measured Shakespearian sonnets consists of three quatrains and a couplet Which alters when it finds an alteration in circumstances bears: carries true minds: minds that are true Notice the "abab cdcd efef gg" rhyme scheme. man's short life. Compare to Macbeth, V.v.23-28 Here the personification of time is being paralleled with death by using death's common sickle (or scithe) image. Edge of doom: the end of ALL life. Love lives on until there is no one left to remember it. tempests: storms upon me prov'd: proved to me Compass: in this case, how far time can reach (everywhere). Here shakespeare is giving proofs that no one can dispute to strengthen his case. I never wrote, or I take back everything I have written. Ships sailed by taking measurements of star positions . wandering bark: lost ship rosy lips and cheeks are symbols of youth The amount of love does not depend on how old you are. ever-fixed mark: the fixed path of a celestial body, such as the moon, or a beacon to warn mariners of dangerous rocks. All Shakespearean sonnets written between 1591-1594 A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme impediments: hindrance, or obstruction, but it can also mean stammer or stutter, which would also fit within the context. 1564-1616 AD

Listen to "Sonnet 116" read by Stephen Glaister [6843kb]

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