Question

How does Shakespeare describe love in sonnett 116?

Answer 1

I don't want to answer it entirely, but I'll give you a big hint. Take a look at lines 9-12 of the sonnet:

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.


In line 11, the antecedent of "his" is "Time's." So lines 11 and 12 are saying: "Love alters not with [Time's] brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom." The answer is in those lines.