Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come; Love alters not with his brief hou
rs and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. In Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare, what text structure of a sonnet do these lines illustrate
I would say these lines illustrate a quatrain. A quatrain is a stanza consisting of four lines, as is the case here. Shakespeare's sonnets have a specific structure - the first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains (4*3 =12); the final two lines are called a couplet, and the message of the entire sonnet can be found in those two final lines.
Greeks seem to value strength over morality and heroic acts over small kindnesses. You can see this in the stories of their gods. Zeus was immoral and made many mistakes, but was still to be considered one to be worshiped. <span />
