Read the line from “Sonnet 18.” Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines How many iambs are in the line?

An iamb is a two-syllable unit with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. The line has ten syllables, which form five iambs: “someTIME / tooHOT / theEYE / ofHEAV / enSHINES.” So the correct choice is five.

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