Read the passage. 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. in sonnet 116 by william shakespeare, based on the rhyme scheme, what text structure of a sonnet do these lines illustrate? iambic foot couplet stanza quatrain

Quatrain.

Explanation:

The given lines are from William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 116". The sonnet is a definition of what love is and what it is not. It presents the different qualities of love, and how it is not defined or confined by time.

Sonnets are primarily written in appreciation of love. And in the given lines which constitute the third quatrain of the sonnet, the poet talks of how "love's not Time's fool [] alters not with his brief hours and weeks". Rather, it pours forth till "the edge of doom", without any limitations.

A quatrain is a poem where a stanza has four lines written in iambic pentameter. And Shakespeare's sonnets have four quatrains and a couplet, meaning there are three stanzas with four lines and a two-lined stanza in the end which is called the couplet. And the particular rhyme scheme in this sonnet is the couplet form.

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d. the two authors are in awe of nature; their experiences, reveal that time in nature can change people.

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