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1. I remember myself when I was a teenager (about 14-15 years old) and I tried to give the definition of "love" and explain myself what it means for me.

2. The word "tempests" reminded me about last summer when I was at sea. There was one day when we were given a storm warning. The sea looked really furious that day.

3. The word "compass" reminded me about one of my classes of Geography at my school. My teacher explained us how to use compass that day.

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"...That looks on tempests and is never shaken..."

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I imagine the speaker of this sonnet.

He is an ordinary man. He  has no high status in society, but he is not a poor. Probably, the man is a member of the middle class.

I think, he has some educational background. Maybe, he even he graduated from University. However, he was not very sucessful in studing though he has deep thoughts about many things. So, he is clever, he is smart, but, actually, he did not have excellent marks at school or university.

He is single. He does not have a wife or children. It is connected with the fact that he is pretty young (I think, about 24) and also he has a loved woman but she  is in no hurry to connect her life with him. But he has parents who love him so much. Mother, especially.

He is suffering. He is sad. But I believe, his life will be changed soon because, in general, he is a very good man.

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Love is the most beautiful feeling in our world. That's why poems, sonnets, stories about love are eternal. They are always valuable for all people.

Love and be loved! Feel love in every your day. Appreciate love.

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1. "Decisive" mood at the beginning of the poem seems to contrast with the “despair” at the end of the poem. (I think so because I have read many Russian translations but may be, the author didn't want to show such mood. I can be mistaken, but it is my own understanding).

2. "an ever-fixed mark" VS "wandering bark"

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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 unknown, 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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The sonnet is English (or Sheaksperean) because it is devided into 3 quatrains and 1 couplet.

The rhyme scheme is classic: abab cdcd efef gg (The Elizabethan rhyme).

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ALLITERATION:
[t]: let, true, admit, impediments (the 1st line)
[k]: sickle, compass, come

ASSONANCE:
[ɔː]: alters, alteration
[u:]: remover, remove
[a:]: star, bark
[ei]: height, taken
[i:]: brief, weeks, even

REPEATING ECHOES:
"love" - 5 repetitions
"alter", "alteration" - 3 repetitions

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Reading this sonnet, I imagine a summer night. I see a man who is suffering and thinking a lot about his beloved. Their relationships are very tense and complicated. That's why he is sitting and thinking about the woman and his feelings to her. He is hesitating now because he is not sure if he's doing the right thing. He is trying to give the proper definition to "LOVE" and explain this word for himself.

I pity him and I can understand him because everyone, I believe, has ever been in such a situation. Love seems to me and to the lyrical hero of the sonnet a great feeling.

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1. Impediment - a hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.

2. Alteration - the act of altering or making different.

3. Tempest - a storm, especially one with severe winds.

4. Bending - present participle of bend (bend - to cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means).

5. Edge - the boundary line of a surface.

6. Writ - that which is written; writing.