This is an authentic Shakespearean sonnet, often known as an Elizabethan or English sonnet. This sonnet has fourteen lines that are divided into three quatrains (four lines each) and conclude with a rhyming couplet (two lines). This sonnet's rhyme system is abab cdcd efef gg. Let me not go to the actual minds marriage. Accept obstructions. Shakespeare utilizes a metaphor equating marriage to the love of two like-minded individuals to underline that there should be no "impediments" between people who sincerely love each other.