Sonnet 116 is about love in its most ideal form.

(f) If this be error and upon me proved, (g)I never writ, nor no man ever loved (g) Quatrain 2 Quatrain 3 Rhyming Couplet WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT? (d)Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks (e)Within his bending sickle's compass come: (f)Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, (e)But bears it out even to the edge of doom. Love is not love (b)Which alters when it alteration finds, (a)Or bends with the remover to remove: (b)O no! it is an ever-fixed mark (c)That looks on tempests and is never shaken (d)It is the star to every wandering bark, (c)Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Impediment = obstacle Quatrain 1 Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a)Admit impediments.

This sonnet structure is commonly called the English sonnet or the Shakespearean sonnet.

The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is ababcdcdefef.

In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet.

The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with four lines each.There are fourteen lines in a Shakespearean sonnet.Love is not loveWhich 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 Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments.

Sonnet 116 iambic pentameter