Can you please tell me if the tense choice is correct in this paragraph? Tahnk you. Two verbs in brackets.
1) Time is personified through the use of a capital letter in line 9, through the use of verbs referring to human action (line 10: beding, come) and finally through the use of the possessive adjective “his” in line 11. 2) In the final couplet the poet declares (? or declared) that, if he is mistaken about the nature of perfect love, then he must take back all his writings on love, truth and faith.
3) If he had judged (?) love inappropriately, then no man has ever really loved.
4) As for its layout, the sonnet is made up of three quatrains and a final couplet. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. (The Shakespearean sonnet was first developed by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. )
5) Through this structure the poet can use the quatrain to present a theme or three different arguments and draw a conclusion in the final couplet.
You have started out in present tense, so that's what you need to keep consistent.
declares (present tense)
has judged (present perfect tense)