Analysis of Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
William Shakespeare 1564 (Stratford-upon-Avon) – 1616 (Stratford-upon-Avon)
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-fixèd mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring 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.
Scheme | ABACDEDEFGFHIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010111 0101001111 110110101 1110010101 1111110111 1111011010 11011100111 1101111110 1111110101 011101101 11011111001 11111010111 1111000111 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 449 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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