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•The poet states that love is everlasting. It perseveres despite obstacles that may arise. The poet continues to define love by the things that it is not. Also, the poet states that love does not change despite any adjustments. Love prevails through any circumstance. The poet provided an analogy on how immeasurable love is by comparing it to how ships are guided by the North Star. The poet emphasizes that love cannot be effected by death and it will last to the end of time. The poet goes to the extent of stating that if love is not how he described it to be and if he is proven wrong then he has never written and man has ever loved before.

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•The poet was informing that there is hope when it comes to love.

•The poet was stating that love is a powerful force that will withstand time.

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•The poem provokes a feeling of appreciation towards love and sentimentality in most readers. Shakespeare does this by describing what love means to him and how he portrays love.

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•Shakespearean sonnet : follows the traditional

a-b-a-b c-d-c-d e-f-e-f g-g

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•Negative language but a positive is being conveyed.

•Nonetheless, the language emphasizes on the message because of the negative language inserted.

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•Personification – Love’s not Time’s fool

•Hyperbole – Edge of doom

•Metaphor

–Love : A star

–Time : Death

–Rosy lips and cheeks : Youth

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•Written in iambic pentameter

•Iambic rhythm : da-DUM

•Pentameter : 5 beats per line

(It is the star to every wandering bark)

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•Alliteration

–Let me notto the marriage of true minds

•Assonance

–It is the star to every wandering bark