Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.
The narrator is saying that true love means loving only one person no matter what, and not just going around with just anyone.
it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken.
The narrator characterizes love as enduring, and strong.
The sonnet uses a lot of extensive metaphor in the writing. In nearly every line, the narrator compares love to different things, such as a guiding star, or an unmoving object.
Before the turn, the narrator compares love to a guiding star and an un-erasable mark, so the sonnet itself is detailing the nature of true love and its permanence, then the turn comes on line 9; Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come. The turn states that, while beauty will fade, true love will remain eternal. the narrator then goes on with this theme for the rest of the sonnet.
This line continues the theme change by the turn, that love will live on through age and time.
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
This line simply states that this is the narrator's truth about love. The theme of the sonnet itself is, is the poem points out, that true love is eternal and invincible, that nothing can get in the way of it, or else it is not true love.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
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