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

rhyming couplet

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

Sickle’s

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

True minds

________: "refers to a faithful marriage.

oceanic imagery

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

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.

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

use of negative

"true minds"

refers to a faithful marriage

"love is not love / Which… "

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

"ever fixed mark"

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

"tempests"

a term for violent storms

"It is the star"

cosmic imagery

"Whose worth unknown"

personifies love, love is priceless

"sickle’s compass come"

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

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

focus on time