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Determine the meaning of the underlined phrases in the context of the passage.

Sonnet 116
by William Shakespeare

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.

Marriage, Time's Tool, bending sickle's compass, edge of doom

Union =
in the range of its impact =
subject to the whims of chance =
infinity =

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Answer:

union- marriage

In the range of its impact- bending sickle's compass

Subject to the whims of

change- Time's fool

Infinity- edge of doom

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User Sudil Ravindran Pk
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Union = Marriage
Marriage and union are synonyms in this context

In the range of its impact = bending sickle's compass
Love is not within the range of time's impact

subject to the whims of chance = Time's Fool
Love does not change with other variables, and therefore does not change with time

Infinity = edge of doom
Love bears it out forever
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