Rhyme Scheme and Rhythm in a Sonnet by William Shakespeare

Question 1

rhyming wordsfigurative languagesound within the poem’s linesstressed and unstressed syllables

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stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 2

How is a poem's rhyme scheme marked and identified?

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upper or lowercase letters, such as “ABAB”

Question 3

Analyze the rhyme scheme in these lines from “Sonnet 18.”But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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ababcc

Question 4

articles, such as “the” or “a”prepositions, such as “through” or “on”conjunctions, such as “and” or “but”nouns, such as “love” or “truth”

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nouns, such as “love” or “truth”

Question 5

Which best defines a couplet?

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A couplet is two consecutive rhyming lines.

Question 6

Erin is writing about the history of sonnets. Which is a fact Erin can include in her history?

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Sonnets were invented in Italy before Shakespeare’s time.

Question 7

Ms. Jameson is using "Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare to teach her students how to analyze a rhyme scheme.So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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aa

Question 8

explain that beauty can fadeteach a lesson about naturedefine the meaning of “fair”argue that things never change

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explain that beauty can fade

Question 9

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

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Five, because an iamb is an unstressed syllable and a stressed syllable.

Question 10

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

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five

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