‘Constancy’ is th

Constancy is one of the main themes of the poem because it makes any relationship last longer. Some phrases and images in the poem that suggest the theme are:

(i) “ Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds”

(ii) “Or bends with the remover to remove”

(iii) “it is an ever-fixed mark”

(iv) “That looks on tempests and is never shaken”

(v) “It is the star to every wandering bark”

(vi) “Love's not Time's fool..”