Sonnet 116

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 proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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A. Recalling 

1. Things that love is not according to Sonnet 116.

• Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds or bends with the remover to remove.
• Love's not Time's fool.
• Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks.

   2.  Things that love is according to Sonnet 116.

• 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. 

B. Interpreting

        Love is like the guiding North Star that leads every lost ship towards the right path. Whenever we are confused on which way to go or what to do, love is there to escort us to the straight course and will never let us feel solitary.

C. Extending

        I agree with the speaker's interpretation of love because Sonnet 166's explications what love is are factual and existent.