Love is one of the purest things that humans can experience, and who better to capture such a thing than the famous playwright, William Shakespear's. He makes his personal testament to love in "Sonnet 116". But exactly what was Shakespeare's representation of love?
In line one he states that he is in no way putting friendship in a bad light. But love is love and cannot be removed or changed in any way. In line three love is compared to a wayward ship and that a wayward ship uses the North Star, to navigate, just as love is the North Star and people use love to navigate their lives. Line four compares love's worth to a ship. The metaphor describes love as a ship. When a ship is at port, and you look at it from the outside don'

The rhyme scheme of this story is abab, cdcd, efef, gg. This is typical of sonnets and Shakespeare. The pattern in the story is Shakespearean sense this story is written by William Shakespeare. The figurative language in this sonnet can be found on many lines. Starting with line one has alliteration such as "marriage if true minds", and "love is not love". In line two there is "alters when it alteration" which is assonance. Then in line three, there is personification that mentions the love is looking at something. Then in line 5 you find a symbol. This is “Within his bending sickle's compass comes;” which a sickle is a knife or blade used to cut down wheat and is made out to be that this sickle can kill people by choppi