![]() ![]() In Shakespeare’s sonnets, the last two lines are often about Shakespeare himself in some way. The couplet in the end is the conclusion, and is used to sum up and close the sonnet. The first quatrain is sort of the “introduction” of the sonnet, while the two next quatrains are the body of the sonnet, where he elaborates the two first lines. The theme of the sonnet is definitely “true love” because of all his attempts to define it by describing what true love means, and why it is so important to human beings. In this sonnet, Shakespeare tries to define love by using comparisons, metaphors and personification. ![]() Sonnet 116 is, like the most of Shakespeare’s sonnets, about love. At that time, the literature and art was in bloom, and his works are clearly characterized by that era both as language and theme goes.Ī sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines, three quatrains and a couplet, in which the beat follows the iambic pentameter. Shakespeare lived in the Elizabethan era. ![]() William Shakespeare was an English writer and poet, and has written a lot of famous plays, amongst them Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet. Sonnet 116 was written by William Shakespeare and published in 1609. ![]()
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