SHAKESPEARE, SONNET 116: LET ME NOT TO THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove.

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wand'ring 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 prov'd,

I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

WORKSHEET

This sonnet is quoted in Ang Lee's adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1996). One of the protagonists, Marianne Dashwood, recites some of the lines in the scene in the video below. Can you tell what her mood is? Can you guess what has happened to her? 

Now watch this scene from Maybe Baby (2000) with Hugh Laurie reciting part of Shakespeare's sonnet 116 in a very romantic scene.