Sonnet 116

A very famous one for this morning’s sonnet:

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CXVI

  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 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 prov'd,

    I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

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The voltas are:  First, the O, no! at the beginning of the second quatrain and the but at the beginning of the antepenultimate line; then—at a different level—the if at the beginning of the closing couplet and the nor in the final line.  Another sonnet in the afternoon—