Sonnet 116 (Please correct)

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Hello, I have to write a interpretation about Shakespeares "Sonnet 116". Would you correct it please? I will be grateful.



Sonnet 116



Sonnet 116 written by William Shakespeare in 1609 deals with the love and that its never change.



The speaker of the sonnet is someone who identifies the love. He addresses a young man. A major theme of the sonnet is love.



The sonnet is subdivided into three quatrains containing cross-rhyme and a rhyming heroic couplet.

In the first quatrain, the speaker is concerned with love, which doesn’t change by removes while the second quatrain deals with the love as an important thing for everybody.

In the third quatrain beauty changes while love is the same until the end.

The couplet serves as a kind of conclusion.



The sonnet is written in iambic pentameter. The end of the sentences does not coincide with the end of the line, creating a hectic tone.

The exclamation in line five indicates that the speaker is very emotional.



In the hole sonnet love is personified and gives so a strong feeling of its strength to the reader. Also the metaphor about love for example in l. 7 contributes to the feeling of mechancolic.

The anaphoras “remover to remove” (l. 4) and “Love is not love” gives the sonnet a better sound. Also the alliteration “Whose worth’s” (l. 8) and “compass come” do the same.



The sonnet does not affect me, because this theme is for me too gooey, but it’s still timeless and that’s the reason why the sonnet reflects a problem nowadays as well as in former times.

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Hello, I have to write a interpretation about Shakespeares "Sonnet 116". Would you correct it please? I will be grateful.



Sonnet 116



Sonnet 116 written by William Shakespeare in 1609, deals with the love and that it never changes.


The speaker (was meinst du?) of the sonnet is someone who identifies the love. He addresses a young man. A major theme of the sonnet is love.



The sonnet is subdivided into three quatrains containing cross-rhyme and a rhyming heroic couplet. (Fussnote zum Original, von dem du diesen Satz kopiert hast, fehlt)

In the first quatrain, the speaker is concerned with love, which doesn’t change by removes (Sinn?) while the second quatrain deals with the love as an important thing (expression!) for everybody.

In the third quatrain beauty changes while love stays the same until the end.

The couplet serves as a kind of conclusion.



The sonnet is written in iambic pentameters. The end of the sentences does not coincide with the end of the line, creating a hectic tone. (Fussnote zum Original, von dem du diesen Satz kopiert hast, fehlt)

The exclamation in line five indicates that the speaker is very emotional. (Fussnote zum Original, von dem du diesen Satz kopiert hast, fehlt)



During the whole sonnet love is personified and hence gives a strong feeling of its strength to the reader. Also the metaphor about love for example in l. 7 contributes to the feeling of melancholy.

The anaphoras “remover to remove” (l. 4) and “Love is not love” gives the sonnet a better sound. Also the alliteration “Whose worth’s” (l. 8) and “compass come” do the same.



The sonnet does not affect me, because for me this theme is for me too gooey (expression?), but it’s still timeless and that’s the reason why the sonnet reflects a problem nowadays as well as in former times.