Scott Mutter

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1564-1616 AD impediments: hindrance, or obstruction, but it can also mean stammer or stutter, which would also fit within the context. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme All Shakespearean sonnets written between 1591-1594 ever-fixed mark: the fixed path of a celestial body, such as the moon, or a beacon to warn mariners of dangerous rocks. The amount of love does not depend on how old you are. rosy lips and cheeks are symbols of youth wandering bark: lost ship Ships sailed by taking measurements of star positions . I never wrote, or I take back everything I have written. Here shakespeare is giving proofs that no one can dispute to strengthen his case. Compass: in this case, how far time can reach (everywhere). upon me prov'd: proved to me tempests: storms Edge of doom: the end of ALL life. Love lives on until there is no one left to remember it. Here the personification of time is being paralleled with death by using death's common sickle (or scithe) image. man's short life. Compare to Macbeth, V.v.23-28 Notice the "abab cdcd efef gg" rhyme scheme. true minds: minds that are true bears: carries Which alters when it finds an alteration in circumstances Shakespearian sonnets consists of three quatrains and a couplet although its height can be measured when one person wants to break the relationship

"Sonnet 116" read by Stephen Glaister

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