Sonnet 116 could be interpreted in a few ways. Some people see it as Shakespeare trying to define what love is, but it could also be seen as a rebuttal to an argument with someone. In this sonnet, there are a lot of negatives. The speaker spends a lot of time saying what love is not, and only the second quatrain says what love is. The last line also has three negatives. "I never writ, nor no man ever loved." This sonnet is not very unique or special. Almost all of the words are monosyllabic, and very few are over two syllables.
In the second quatrain, the speaker compares love to a star. This can be seen as him saying that love is immortal, immeasurable, a guiding light, and unmovable.
The speaker also said that love is not Time's fool. This means that true love is not affected by time and will continue on even into death, which is also claimed in the last line of the third quatrain. It is said that beauty is affected by Time, so love is more than skin-deep.
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