WHAT IS A SONNET? 14 lines Octave Sestet Prescribed rhyme scheme Concerned with single thought or sentiment Shakespearian sonnet and Italian sonnet.

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2 WHAT IS A SONNET? 14 lines Octave Sestet Prescribed rhyme scheme Concerned with single thought or sentiment Shakespearian sonnet and Italian sonnet.

3 Composed in an octave and a sestet Octave rhyme scheme = abba abba Sestet = cdecde

4 Allows for break/turn between octave and sestet Composed in three quatrains and final clinching couplet abab, cdcd, efef, gg

5 Sonnet 116

6 SONNET COMMENTARY Sonnet 116 is about love in its most ideal form. It is praising the glories of lovers who have come to each other freely, and enter into a. relationship based on trust and understanding The first four lines reveal the poet's pleasure in love that is constant and strong, and will not "alter when it alteration finds." The lines that follow proclaim that true love is indeed an "ever-fix'd mark" which will survive any crisis.

7 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when alteration finds, Or bends with the remover remove. 5. O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks 10. 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.

8 Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a) Admit impediments. Love is not love (b) Which alters when it alteration finds,(a) Or bends with the remover to remove:(b) O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,(c) That looks on tempests and is never shaken;(d) It is the star to every wandering bark,(c) Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.(d) Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks(e) Within his bending sickle's compass come;(f) Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,(e) But bears it out even to the edge of doom.(f) If this be error and upon me proved,(g) I never writ, nor no man ever loved.(g) 8

9 What does it mean? Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a) Admit impediments. Love is not love (b) Which alters when it alteration finds, (a) Or bends with the remover to remove: (b) O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, (c) That looks on tempests and is never shaken; (d) It is the star to every wandering bark, (c) Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. (d) Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks (e) Within his bending sickle's compass come; (f) Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, (e) But bears it out even to the edge of doom. (f) If this be error and upon me proved, (g) I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (g) Let me not declare any reasons why two True-minded people should not be married. Love is not love Which changes when circumstances change, Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful(absent): Oh no! it is a lighthouse That sees storms but is never shaken; Love is the guiding north star to every lost ship, Whose value cannot be calculated, although its altitude can be measured. Love is not at the mercy of Time, though physical beauty Comes within the compass of his sickle. Love does not alter with hours and weeks, But, rather, it endures until the last day of life. If I am proved wrong about these thoughts on love Then I recant all that I have written, and no man has ever [truly] loved.

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11 Metaphor line 1: true minds Two people who love each other and want to get married is compared with having true or honest feelings in their minds

12 Alliteration line 2: Love is not love. Repetition of the letter L More alliteration line 3: Which alters when alteration finds. Repetition of the letter A.

13 Metaphor line 5: Love is an ever fixed mark. Love is a star, something that never moves,

14 Personification line 6: that looks on tempests. A fixed mark cannot look. Look is a human quality and a fixed mark is something not human.

15 Metaphor line 7: It is the star to every moving bark. Love is the star that gives direction to every moving ship.

16 Personification Apostrophe line 9: Time is personified because it is written with a capital letter and addressed as if it is a person.