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Rhyme Scheme Of Sonnet 116

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I choose the Shakespeare’s sonnet 116. The topic of this sonnet is “love”. Shakespeare takes a very optimistic approach of love. He also considers loyalty as the theme of this sonnet, as if the two persons have true feelings about each other, none can separate them. The versification of this sonnet is that the fourteen lines are divides into three stanzas, called quatrains, each of four lines. The rhyme scheme of this sonnet is very simple that is abab cdcd efef gg.
In the first quatrain, Shakespeare claims that two true minds who love each other should not be joined together. He does not make it clear that whether he is talking about marriage or other relations. In first line, word “marriage” is used as the metaphor of the union of the two souls or two minds. The author used phrase “two minds”, rather than of using two persons or a couple. Therefore, he shows that marriage is, in fact, of minds or hearts, not of physical bodies. In the second line, he uses phrase “admit impediments” with “love is not love”, which means that the author wants to say that the obstacles confession is the characteristic of that love, which is not a real love. The love not remains as love, when the circumstances change or the beloved one becomes unfaithful, and the real love does not change with alterations. In these lines, poet shows the vulnerability of love from words - “alters” and “alteration”. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”, this line uses a poetic device - alliteration, as

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