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    This sonnet by William Shakespeare argues that true love does not change or alter over time in response to changes in the loved one or circumstances. It asserts that real love accepts people as they are, rather than trying to change them, and that love is permanent and enduring rather than fading as beauty or youth fades. The poem uses metaphors likening love to an unwavering star guiding lost ships and contrasting it with the temporary nature of beauty that fades like flowers in the cutting blade of time.

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    This sonnet by William Shakespeare argues that true love does not change or alter over time in response to changes in the loved one or circumstances. It asserts that real love accepts people as they are, rather than trying to change them, and that love is permanent and enduring rather than fading as beauty or youth fades. The poem uses metaphors likening love to an unwavering star guiding lost ships and contrasting it with the temporary nature of beauty that fades like flowers in the cutting blade of time.

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    This sonnet by William Shakespeare argues that true love does not change or alter over time in response to changes in the loved one or circumstances. It asserts that real love accepts people as they are, rather than trying to change them, and that love is permanent and enduring rather than fading as beauty or youth fades. The poem uses metaphors likening love to an unwavering star guiding lost ships and contrasting it with the temporary nature of beauty that fades like flowers in the cutting blade of time.

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    “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare

    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-fixed 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.

    This is one of Shakespeare’s most famous love sonnets. The idea behind it is that love doesn’t try
    to change people. If you really love someone, you love the person for who he/she is, and you don’t
    try to make the person someone else. The poem also says that love should last forever and not
    just go away when the person isn’t beautiful any more.

    © 2019 Mensa Education & Research Foundation, This activity plan is provided as a complimentary service
    to the public. Reproduction and distribution without modification are allowed. Images, links and linked
    content referenced herein are the property of the originating entities.
    Taking it apart

    This poem is a sonnet, so it has a strong rhyme scheme. That makes memorizing it easier. A sonnet has three sections of four
    lines (called a quatrain), and then a couplet (two rhyming lines) at the end. Each quatrain has an ABAB rhyme scheme, which
    means that the first and third lines rhyme with each other, and the second and fourth lines rhyme with each other. Remember that
    he had an English accent, so the rhyme may not seem as strong to us.

    “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare

    Impediments are things that get in the way. “Ped” means


    Let me not to the marriage of true minds “foot,” so an impediment is something that makes your foot
    Admit impediments. Love is not love stumble.
    Which alters when it alteration finds,
    Or bends with the remover to remove: To alter is to change.

    O no! it is an ever-fixed mark


    That looks on tempests and is never shaken; Tempests are storms.

    It is the star to every wandering bark, A bark is a boat.


    Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
    To be something’s star is to guide it like the
    North Star guides sailors.
    Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
    Within his bending sickle's compass come: A sickle is a tool used to harvest grain by cutting it down.
    Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, This is saying that even though beauty (rosy lips and
    cheeks) will fade with time, love is not at the mercy of time,
    But bears it out even to the edge of doom. but rather will last forever.

    If this be error and upon me proved,


    I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

    If I’m wrong about this, I never wrote anything worth anything.


    This is saying that he is really sure he’s right about this.

    © 2019 Mensa Education & Research Foundation, This activity plan is provided as a complimentary service
    to the public. Reproduction and distribution without modification are allowed. Images, links and linked
    content referenced herein are the property of the originating entities.
    Memorizing it

    Can you draw a picture for each section?

    “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare

    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-fixed 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.

    © 2019 Mensa Education & Research Foundation, This activity plan is provided as a complimentary service
    to the public. Reproduction and distribution without modification are allowed. Images, links and linked
    content referenced herein are the property of the originating entities.
    Memorizing it

    Can you tap out the beats to the poem? Tap your foot on the first beat, and then clap the second
    beat. The first quatrain is divided into beats for you. You should clap five times and tap five times in
    each line.

    “Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare

    Let - me - not - to - the - mar- riage - of –true - minds


    Ad – mit – im – ped – i - ments. - Love - is - not - love
    Which – al - ters -when - it - al –ter – a - tion -finds,
    Or - bends - with – the – re – mo - ver – to – re - move:

    O no! it is an ever-fixed 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.

    © 2019 Mensa Education & Research Foundation, This activity plan is provided as a complimentary service
    to the public. Reproduction and distribution without modification are allowed. Images, links and linked
    content referenced herein are the property of the originating entities.

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