~~Activity~~
Please read the following sonnet:
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.
**Please analyze this sonnet and answer the following questions/complete the
following tasks**:
1) Label the rhyme scheme of the above sonnet
2) Label the metric pattern in the sonnet
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.
3) Find the intended meaning or definition of each of the following words:
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Alteration_________________________________________________________
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The Remover_______________________________________________________
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Tempests_________________________________________________________
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Wandering Bark_____________________________________________________
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Fool_____________________________________________________________
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Sickle____________________________________________________________
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Compass__________________________________________________________
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Nor_____________________________________________________________
4) Now, please rewrite the sonnet in modern English so that it’s easier for someone from the
21st century to understand
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