Sonnet 116 Flashcards
(6 cards)
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Context
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Written in the 16th century, English society had become more peaceful under the reign of Elizabeth I.
Sonnet 116 was one of the 154 sonnets that Shakespeare published in a Quattro. The Fair Youth Sonnets is 1-126, which were addressed to an unnamed young man. Platonic or homo understand
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‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds’
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O no! It is an ever fixed mark
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It is the star to every wandering bark
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Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
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Structure
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- Divided into three quatrains, an octave, a sestet and a final rhyming couplet.
- Iambic pentameter throughout (heartbeat)
- Between line 8 and 9 there is a Volta.
- Sonnet 116, over 3/4 of the words are monosyllabic
