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Question 3 • English Language Arts 10

Which quotation from a Shakespearean sonnet is a couplet?

Answer

“And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare, / As any she belied with false compare.”

“Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?”

“Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey, / If Time have any wrinkle graven there; / If any, be a satire to decay, / And make Time's spoils despised every where.”

“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.”

Explanation

A couplet is a pair of consecutive lines that rhyme, often appearing at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet. In A, “rare” and “compare” rhyme, and the quotation contains exactly two lines. B has two lines, but “long” and “might” do not rhyme; C and D each contain four lines.

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