HELP PLEASE!!! URGENT AND A LOT OF POINTS! ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS!! NEED ASAP!
QUESTION-write an explanation of how the structure of the poem contributes to its
overall meaning.
POEM- 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.
—William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116"

The structure of this poem enforces just how complex love is. In other words, the fact that there are many separate lines about what love is or isn't demonstrates that there is a great number of things things to be said about love. I believe that this poem is highlighting what Shakespeare love means to everyone, and not just what love means to himself. This is because the last line states "If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved." In simpler terms, Shakespeare says that if he's wrong, you may as well say that he's never written or that no one has ever loved someone-- he's that confident. The structure contributes to this meaning because it is almost as if Shakespeare is reading off a list about what love means to people, particularly one of the ending lines: "Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom", which is stating that true love lasts through anything, including long periods of time. In summary, the structure of the poem contributes to its overall meaning by showing how complicated love is, and yet how Shakespeare believes there to be a concrete list of the qualities of love.