Sonnet 116

Question

by William Shakespeare

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.

"Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare

Question
Use the lines to answer the question.

Which lines are a couplet?

(1 point)
Responses

“If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”

“If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”

“O no, it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;”

“O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken;”

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”

“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”

“It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.”

“It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.”

Answer 1

A couplet consists of two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter. In Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, the couplet is found in the final two lines:

“If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”

So the correct response is:

“If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”