SONNET
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:
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.
2006-08-07 05:39:09
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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These two lines, the last two of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, are an example of his writing style called iambic pentameter. You can tell from the rhyme scheme. The whole sonnet uses personification (e.g. "Love . . . which alters", "that looks on tempests", etc.), a literary technique that ascribes personhood to nonhuman things or qualities.
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.
O no! It is an ever-fixèd mark
that looks on tempests and is never shaken.
It is the star to every wandering barque
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.
See if this helps, and have a great day!
2006-08-07 05:46:14
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answer #2
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answered by ensign183 5
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Couplet.
The term sonnet signifies a poem of fourteen lines following a strict rhyme scheme and logical structure. The English or Shakespearean sonnet form consists of three quatrains of four lines and a couplet of two lines. The couplet generally introduced an unexpected sharp thematic or imagistic "turn". The usual rhyme scheme was a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.
2006-08-07 05:38:18
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answer #3
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answered by Justsyd 7
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It's a couplet, just did an exam with this question and couplet was the correct answer.
2014-08-26 07:25:37
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answer #4
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answered by Daniel 1
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Its a paradox or an oxymoron. I forget which.
If he's proven wrong then he never wrote the sonnet, but he did write it because its clearly there.
2006-08-07 06:04:29
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answer #5
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answered by badgerlicious03 2
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At first glance, illiteracy.
However upon further review I reminds me of shakespeare some.
2006-08-07 05:39:23
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answer #6
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answered by David D 4
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Sounds like it could be Iambic Pentameter.
2006-08-07 05:38:48
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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Horrible grammar.
2006-08-07 05:38:40
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answer #8
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answered by Jessica H 4
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hell with the grammer
it might be some great work
2006-08-07 05:44:04
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answer #9
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answered by brightstar 2
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what you wanted to say??
2006-08-07 05:39:21
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answer #10
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answered by Anonymous
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