Which meter is used in these lines from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely an
d more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A. dactylic hexameter B. iambic pentameter C. trochaic tetrameter D. spondaic dimeter E. trochaic trimeter
Shakespeare's poems are written in iambic pentameter, which comprises of five "feet" of one unstressed and one stressed on syllable (at times noted as "x/" ). Each and every other syllable is focused on beginning with the second. It is viewed as the most standard rythm in English verse.
