Sonnet 116 takes on a favorite topic amongst poets: love. In the first quatrain, the writer says that people who love each other should be together, but that love isn’t love if it ever falters. The second quatrain continues saying that love is constant and unchanging, and the third quatrain states that not even time, which destroys beauty, can destory can love. The couplet closes with the indication that if what writer says is false, he never wrote it and no man ever loved. I can’t help but feel that after 116 sonnets, the writer may be growing a little tired of encouraging the subject to have children and running out reasons why he should procreate. That’s why I think he takes on the topic of love, a different perk to having children that might appeal to the subject. By showing him the beauty of love, maybe he can convince him to find love, and then have children with her.
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