Are there any archaic words in sonnet 116?

Answer 1

Sonnet 116 (archaic words are italicized and bold):

Let me not to the marriage 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;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

The words themselves are not exactly archaic, but the use the Bard puts them to here is a bit so. A bark is a ship. A compass here refers to the gadget in a geometry set, not the magnetic thing for determining direction. "Within one's compass" means within a circle drawn with you in the centre, but is here used figuratively. Writ is here used instead of "wrote".

Answer 2

The Archaic features are: words no longer used in modern speech but in poetry referring to a certain time period such as, tempests, sickle, writ, nor, & impediments.

Answer 3

Iambic pentameter, and ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme.