Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

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.

Sonnet 116 is an attempt to define "True Love" by telling what it is and what it is not. The first quartrain describes love has a pefect and unchanging thing. It does not allow obstrections and it never changes when it finds changes in the loved ones.

Love is metaphorically described as the guiding star to the lost ships. It is light house that remains constant and strong eveb at the time of tempests or storms. Its value cannot be calculated.

In the third quartrain describes againwhat love is not. The speaker says that time cannot play with love,though time can destroy rosy lips and cheeks. Love does not change with hours and weeks. But it remains till the death.

In the final couplet speaker of the poem confirms that what he said about love is perfectly true. If his statements are proved to be wrong then he hadn't written anything and no man ever loved. It means his statements about love is true and there are people who loves truely.