Shakespeare

Here is the beginning of sonnet 116. We scanned this section in my rhyme and meter class to examplify one of Kiparsky's rules of meter. (The important thing is that the stresses on the pollysylabic words all fall on even syllables, which are the strong syllables, because this is written in iambic pentameter.) I thought it would fit in nicely on this blog, because of the topic :-)

Let me not to the marraige 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.