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Rhyme Scheme and Rhythm in a Sonnet by William Shakespeare

Question 1 • EN091 Freshman English A

Which best defines a couplet?

Answer
A
A couplet is a stanza of four poetic lines.
B
A couplet is two consecutive rhyming lines.
C
A couplet is three quatrains and two rhyming lines.
D
A couplet is a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Explanation

A couplet consists of two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme, often expressing a complete thought. Choice B, “two consecutive rhyming lines,” gives the correct definition; four lines make a quatrain, and a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is a meter.

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