The movement of 116, like its tone, is careful, controlled, laborious…it defines and redefines its subject in each quatrain, and this subject becomes increasingly vulnerable. Love is "not Time's fool", though physical beauty is altered by it. True love is, like the polar star, "ever-fixed". In the seventh line, the poet makes a nautical reference, alluding to love being much like the north star is to sailors.
The poet begins by stating he does not object to the "marriage of true minds", but maintains that love is not true if it changes with time true love should be constant, regardless of difficulties.
Its structure and form are a typical example of the Shakespearean sonnet. William Shakespeare's sonnet 116 was first published in 1609.
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