Rhyme Scheme and Rhythm in a Sonnet by William Shakespeare

Question 1

Use the poem to complete the sentences.

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✔ quatrain; The first four lines of the poem make up a.: quatrain; The last two lines of the poem make up a.: couplet

Question 2

✔ coupletquatrainparaphrase

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✔ couplet

Question 3

a✔ bcd

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✔ b

Question 4

ab✔ cd

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✔ c

Question 5

abc✔ d

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✔ d

Question 6

Reread the first six lines of the sonnet. If the first line is identified as “a” in the rhyme scheme, how should the remaining lines be identified?

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✔ b; Thou art more lovely and more temperate:: b; Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,: a; And summer's lease hath all too short a date:: b; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,: c; And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,: d

Question 7

In the first quatrain, the speaker is comparing

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his beloved and a summer day.

Question 8

What is the central idea of the first quatrain?

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The speaker’s beloved is more beautiful than a summer day.

Question 9

Read the second quatrain of the sonnet, and then answer the questions below.

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✔ The sun is sometimes too hot or dim.; What is the best paraphrase of the first two lines?: The sun is sometimes too hot or dim.; Beauty eventually fades.

Question 10

Which statement best expresses the central idea of the third quatrain?

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Your beauty will never fade, because you will live forever in the lines of this poem.

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