William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116”
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William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” by Chalbert
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SOAPSTONE
Speaker: An early day wedding singer, a best man.
Occasion: He could possibly be at a wedding, saying words of encouragement to the bride and groom.
Audience: The other people that attended the wedding.
Purpose: To show that the ties you bind with love are very strong, and to show that...
William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” Annotated
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 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.