Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds - William Shakespeare

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rhyming couplet

Sonnet 116 makes use of an alternating rhyme scheme with a _____ _____ to end.

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Sickle’s

________ compass come: "________ means scythe, grim reaper, death, alliteration, reference to navigation.

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True minds

________: "refers to a faithful marriage.

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oceanic imagery

Ever fixed mark: "refers to north star, cosmic imagery, ________ (used by sailors for navigation)

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sonnet

A(n) ________ is a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

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"Let me not", "I never writ nor no man ever loved"

use of negative

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"true minds"

refers to a faithful marriage

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"love is not love / Which… "

love is such a complex force that it can only be defined by what it is not

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"ever fixed mark"

refers to north star, cosmic imagery, oceanic imagery (used by sailors for navigation)

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"tempests"

a term for violent storms

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"It is the star"

cosmic imagery

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"Whose worth unknown"

personifies love, love is priceless

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"sickle’s compass come"

sickle means scythe, grim reaper, death, alliteration, reference to navigation

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"Times fool", "hours and weeks", "doom"

focus on time

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