In this sonnet, the speaker seems to be explaining the qualities he believes love to carry. Love is apparently a permanent thing which never dies. The love must not be true if it can be changed by an alteration of the one beloved. Shakespeare manages to relate his idea to sailing terms by comparing love to a lighthouse or star in the night sky which guides ships to safety. It is a guide that takes us through life.
Time is once again personified but in this sonnet seems to claim less power than spoken of before. Love cannot be battered by Time, it is always there up until the moment of death. Shakespeare is so confident in this that the couplet seems to challenge that if he were false, then all his writings are wrong and also no one has ever truly loved.
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