Sonnet CXVI
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare is considered as one of his profound love poem. It has 14 lines and has the rhyming scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF and GG couplet. It talks about eternal love and how it will not be altered by anything. First two lines are allusion to Episcopal Book, and this allusion emphasizes the communion of two lovers. The metaphoric and personificatic comparison of love to a sailing ship, and boat is evident from lines 5 to 8. It talks about how love will not be shaken by anything, and it is an unreachable star (guidance) to lovers. Later part of the poem talks about how love is unaffected by time and is again eternal till the end or “edge of doom” (12). Last couplet is emphasized due to the rhyming scheme and it says that those who fathom the true understanding of love, they will understand the eternal nature of love. Overall tone of the poem is really calm, mellow, and content. It’s almost didactic in a sense that it is vividly trying to illustrate what love really is.
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