William Shakespeare
“Sonnet 116“
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-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unkown, 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.
1) What is the rhyme-scheme of this sonnet?
2) Does this scheme work everywhere?
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“Sonnet 116”
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:
A
B
A
B
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unkown, although his height be taken.
C
D
C
D
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.
E
F
E
F
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
G
G
minds / finds = true rhyme (echter Reim)
love / remove = eye-rhyme (Augenreim)
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“Sonnet 116”
stress
Let
Ad
Which
Or
me
mit
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bends
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with
to
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when
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stress
the
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stress
riage
Love
ter
ver
of
is
a
to
stress
true
not
tion
re
minds
love
finds
move.
Put a dot beneath each stressed syllable:
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-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unkown, 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.
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10 syllables, 5 stresses: iambic pentameter (fünfhebiger Iambus)
part of a poem that forms a unit of meaning: stanza
two rhyming lines at the end of a poem: heroic couplet
one sentence going on beyond the end of a line: run-on-line or enjambement
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“Sonnet 116” … yes, very nice, but what does it mean? Write your translation behind the lines:
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-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unkown, 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.
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