As in quatrain three of Sonnet 116 where personification is used to show that love is not vulnerable to time, although beauty fades with time. Then he continues by saying that true love does not change, rather it lasts until the Day of Judgment and so on. Sonnet 116 ends with lines thirteen and fourteen by saying, "If this be a mistake and it be proved to me, I never wrote, nor any man ever loved." Here the speaker expresses pure trust in the written words he professes, if a mistake has been made then he has not written a word and no man has ever loved. The romantic concept that love does not change, but has the ability to survive death and not admit flaws is the overall theme of the piece (Shakespeare's Varying Views of Love). Related structures and devices illustrated in Sonnet 116 were also common in Sonnet 29 and continued to be relevant in Sonnet 130. Indeed, the contrasting strategies of Sonnet 29 and the extreme claims made in Sonnet 116 combine in intellectual ways throughout Sonnet 130 . of this sonnet incorporates numerous ironic contrasts with the beauty of his love and some unattainable measures (SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS). Unlike the previous sonnet, the author does not directly affirm the true beauty of his love, however he expresses what she is