Sonnet 116

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Sonnet 116

• by William Shakespeare

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AP/H English 12Dercher

• Mini Read
• Reading Indicators
• R.1.3.4
• R.1.4.5
• R.1.4.10
• R.1.4.11. h.s.

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• 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.
• 5 Oh no! It is an ever-fixed mark
• That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
• It is the star to every wandering bark,
• Whose worths unknown, although his height be
  taken.
• Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and
  cheeks
• 10 Within his bending sickles 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.

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Shakespearean Sonnet (English Sonnet) Format
Requirements

• Fourteen Lines Long
• Iambic pentameter (unstressed stressed)
• abab cdcd efef gg rhyme pattern
• Three quatrains of related ideas or examples
• Ending couplet sums up theme or authors message.

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• 1. From reading Sonnet 116, one can conclude that
  Shakespeares idea of love involves the premise
  that
• a. true love ends when circumstances require
  that it do so
• b. people must be close in age to be truly in
  love
• c. real love brings a person, money, fame, and
  respect
• d. true love is indifferent to wealth, beauty,
  age, and circumstance
• 2. The passage Loves not Times fool suggests
  that love
• a. is not deluded by material wealth
• b. cannot last forever
• c. endures the decline of youth
• d. is strongest when people are young.
• 3. The couplet at the end of the sonnet functions
  to
• a. add a statement of great impact and
  importance
• b. confirm what was said at the beginning
• c. add a statement of ambiguity
• d. express the speakers sorrow.

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• Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part
  of something represents the whole.
• 4. Which line contains the synecdoche?
• a. Love is not love / Which alters when it
  alteration finds.
• b. Oh, no! It is an ever-fixed mark
• c. Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and
  cheeks / Within his bending sickles compass
  come
• d. But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
• 5. Where is there an allusion to the medieval
  image of time as the Grim Reaper?
• a. It is the star to every wandering bark.
• b. Within his bending sickles compass come.
• c. But bears it out even to the edge of doom
• d. I never writ, nor no man ever loved.