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 wand’ring 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.
This text excerpt is an example of what type of Renaissance literature?
A.
the sonnet
B.
the picaresque
C.
the devotional
D.
the epic poem
It's a sonnet. It's literally called Sonnet 116.
Yes, a sonnet. For future English classes, you'd be wise to know what a sonnet's organization is.
son·net
noun
1.
a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.
In addition, this is a sonnet written by Shakespeare. You'll undoubtedly read more of his work, too.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds