In sonnet 116 it defines love, by telling both what it is and is not. In the first quatrain Shakespeare talks about what love is not. Shakespeare says that love is “the marriage of true minds” which is a metaphor for true love, ideal and perfect love. Shakespeare uses the word “minds” rather than words like “hearts”, he does this to let us know that perfect love is a partnership of the two thinking. Shakespeare then goes on to say “which alters when it alteration finds”. This line is very significant because it has repetition; Shakespeare is trying to say real love doesn’t alter when circumstances change, the love remains constant and that even when someone tries to “remove” affection, real love doesn’t give in and always survives. ”Or bends with the remover to remove”. In the second quatrain Shakespeare tells us what love is. In line 5 Shakespeare dramatically changes the tome with “O no!” to show he is changing from negative to positive and goes straight into the qualities of love. He says, an “ever-fixed mark” which is a star, to be exact the North Star, the only one that never changes its position in the sky. In Elizabethan times sailors would find their location in the ocean based on the position of the stars. “Looks on tempests and is never shaken”. A “tempest2 is a fierce storm that destroys ships and sometimes kills people. Shakespeare uses this metaphor as a way to describe how powerful love is and that it can overcome Mother nature- love is immortal. Shakespeare tells us that love is a mysterious force “whose worth unknown” showing that love is priceless and beyond the ability of a man to evaluate even though, “his height be taken”. In quatrain 3 Shakespeare introduces a new figure which is known as time, in line 9 it says that love isn’t times “fool” saying that “ rosy lips and cheeks” of a loved one will fade as they age or be taken by the “sickle”. The last two lines of…