Which two lines of this poem serve to emphasize its theme let you not to the marriage of true minds?

Answer 1

Which two lines in the poem indicate its theme?

A Shadow

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I said unto myself, if I were dead,

What would befall these children? What would be

Their fate, who now are looking up to me

For help and furtherance? Their lives, I said,

Would be a volume wherein I have read

But the first chapters, and no longer see

To read the rest of their dear history,

So full of beauty and so full of dread.

Be comforted; the world is very old,

And generations pass, as they have passed,

A troop of shadows moving with the sun;

Thousands of times has the old tale been told;

The world belongs to those who come the last,

They will find hope and strength as we have done.

Answer 2

This is a Sonnet, in fact, the first line of Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare.

The whole thing is very beautiful:

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.

Answer 3

a couplet

The last two lines for A+

Answer 4

It is a sonnet. It is known as Sonnet 116, and like all Shakespearean sonnets, it uses iambic pentameter and ends with a rhyming couplet.