Determine the meaning of the underlined phrases in the context of the passage.


Sonnet 116

by William Shakespeare


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 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.




Tiles





marriage




Time’s fool




bending sickle’s compass




edge of doom





Pairs




union

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in the range of its impact

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subject to the whims of change

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infinity