Question

Which of the following is NOT true about a Shakespearean sonnet?
A. It has a predictable rhyme scheme.
B. It has fourteen lines.
C. It uses iambic pentameter.
D. It has one quatrain and three couplets.

Answer 1

Shakespeare’s sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

Answer 2

There are fourteen lines in a Shakespearean sonnet. The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with four lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet. The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab cdcd efef. The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg. This sonnet structure is commonly called the English sonnet or the Shakespearean sonnet, to distinguish it from the Italian Petrarchan sonnet form which has two parts: a rhyming octave (abbaabba) and a rhyming sestet (cdcdcd). The Petrarchan sonnet style was extremely popular with Elizabethan sonneteers, much to Shakespeare's disdain (he mocks the conventional and excessive Petrarchan style in Sonnet 130).

Only three of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets do not conform to this structure: Sonnet 99, which has 15 lines; Sonnet 126, which has 12 lines; and Sonnet 145, which is written in iambic tetrameter.

Answer 3

The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with four lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet

Answer 4

Thus making the answer D. It has one quatrain and three couplets.

Answer 5

Thanks.

Answer 6

thanks

Answer 7

No problem.

Answer 8

can you solve this in comment because this is also long

Answer 9

Sure.

Answer 10

I'll try my best.

Answer 11

How many lines are in the following poem?
Because I could not stop for Death
by Emily wingspaninson
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.

A. 5
B. 8
C. 12
D. 20

Answer 12

D. 20

Answer 13

It has 5 stanzas each consisting of 4 lines. So 5*4=20

Answer 14

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Answer 15

k.

Answer 16

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Answer 17

Which of the following are elements that create patterns of sound in a poem?
A. Lines and rhymes
B. Lines and stanzas
C. Rhymes and rhythm
D. Rhythm and stanzas

Answer 18

I think it's C. Rhymes and rhythm