ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The last two lines of a sonnet are called a couplet in a Shakespearean sonnet. Shakespearean sonnets use three quatrains, which are stanzas of four lines each.

Detailed explanation-2: -The fourth, and final part of the sonnet is two lines long and is called the couplet. The couplet is rhymed CC, meaning the last two lines rhyme with each other.

Detailed explanation-3: -A sestet refers only to the final portion of a sonnet, otherwise the six-line stanza is known as a sexain.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the couplet, the speaker attests to his certainty that love is as he says: if his statements can be proved to be error, he declares, he must never have written a word, and no man can ever have been in love. Read a translation of Sonnet 116.

Detailed explanation-5: -The final line resolves this challenge through a somewhat complicated twist; by saying that the poet has never written anything and that nobody has ever really been in love before if love actually turns out to be less than eternal, the poem’s truth immediately becomes impossible to dispute.