Read the line from “Sonnet 18.” Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May How many iambs are in the line?

The line has 10 syllables, which form five pairs of syllables. An iamb is a two-syllable poetic foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, so the line has five iambs. Choice B gives the correct definition and count.

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