Which quotation from a Shakespearean sonnet is a couplet?
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Which statements describe iambic pentameter as it is used in Shakespearean sonnets? Select two options.Each line contains five metrical feet.A sonnet contains five rhyme schemes.There are five lines in every metrical foot.In two-word pairs, the second word is stressed.In a group of two syllables, the second is stressed.
Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130.”My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red, than her lips red:If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat music hath a far more pleasing sound:I grant I never saw a goddess go,—My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,As any she belied with false compare.
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Why is it helpful to examine the tone of a sonnet?
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