![]() ![]() It is a sonnet of 14 lines and has a regular rhyme scheme.WHAT ARE THE MAIN ASEPCTS OF STYLE WHICH ARE EFFECTIVE? Time and the passage of time do not alter love. Pure love in its ideal form is constant, everlasting and unchanged by time and circumstance. WHAT ARE THE MAIN IDEAS AND THEMES? The main theme is love and how love (true minds) is unchanging, even when it encounters change. The final couplet says that if he is wrong about the constant nature of love then he never wrote anything and no one ever loved, therefore meaning that he must be correct as Shakespeare is a writer and people have loved before. He proves his point! The third quatrain says that love is alive with ‘rosy lips and cheeks’ and does not age with time but endures until the end of Time. We can measure its height in the sky suggesting we can in some way measure it but its worth is in the heavens and therefore a mystery. The second quatrain compares love to a fixed point which is unmoved or shaken by any storm. It is also seen as a fixed star to a wandering ship. Ships used to navigate by the stars. ![]() The first quatrain says that there is no barrier to the uniting of two minds in love (notice it says ‘minds’ not bodies). Love does not change when it finds change in the beloved, even when the beloved leaves. One of the most famous of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Like all of them it has a regular rhyme scheme of three quatrains (4 line units) and a final rhyming couplet. Because it is about the nature of true love, it is often used at weddings, although it was written to a man. ![]()
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