Own version of sonnet 116 by shakespeare.. please help!!!

Question

can someone please share/make his/her own version of this shakespearean sonnet? perhaps you guys can make this simpler yet it's characteristics can still be considered as a sonnet.. i really can't do it.. please help!? tnx!

sonnet 116

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 1

First thing to do for you: read the sonnet carefully and understand its meaning, including the details. You can use this site:

http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/116c...

Then, try and write the lines / sentences of the poem in contemporary English.

Look up the words in a dictionary if needed in order to find synonyms.

Your problem: the rhymes. If you change the words you will have to change the rhymes. Use a rhyming dictionary:

http://www.rhymezone.com/