Question

Which meter is used in these lines from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

A.
dactylic hexameter
B.
iambic pentameter
C.
trochaic tetrameter
D.
spondaic dimeter
E.
trochaic trimeter

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

Shakespeare's sonnets are written in iambic pentameter, whic consists of five "feet" of one unstressed and one stressed syllable (sometimes noted as "x /" ). Every other syllable is stressed starting with the second. It is considered the most standard rhythm in English poetry. As an example, the scansion of the third verse would be as follows.

x                /   x      /          x     /     x     /      x    /    

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

Answer 2

❤hola ❤

iambic pentameter is used in this line of Shakespeare in Sonnet 18 .

Sonnet 18 is perhaps the best known of all sonnets. ... Their depth and range set Shakespeare apart from all other sonneteers. His sonnet 18 focuses on the loveliness of a friend or lover, the speaker initially asking a rhetorical question comparing them to a summer's day.

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