Shakespeare 1
Poetry
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What is the Rhyme scheme of "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" 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, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
What is abab
100
The basic unit of stressed and unstressed syllables used to describe rhythm in poetry is called...
What is a foot
200
The rhyming couplet often presents a conclusion to the issues or questions presented in the three quatrains.
Shakespearean Couplet
200
poetry without a fixed structural pattern.
free verse
300
A Shakespearean Sonnet contains:
What is 3 quatrains and a final rhyming couplet
300
A four-line stanza.
What is quatrain
400
The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is:
What is abab cdcd efef gg
400
A group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song. In a poem it is similar to a paragraph in prose. Typically, it is separated by a line of space.
What is stanza
500
The type of meter used in a Shakespearean sonnet is;
What is iambic pentameter
500
reflects the natural rhythm of the human heartbeat in poetry and it is the rhythm most common to our way of speaking.
What is Iambic pentameter
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