Answer:
Correct answer is: "The consistent rhythm softens the speaker's unkind words about the subject."
Explanation:
Sonnet 130 is one of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare . The themes are about love, sex and beauty.
Shakespeare uses Iambic Pentamer in all his sonnets, in type of rhythm, the lines are divided into 5 feet with one stressed syllable each.
Iambic is the most common foot of poetry in English
It is the most closely rhymes. It is creates rhythm in the poem and helps the rhythm goes smoothly.
The rhyme scheme is like this AB AB CD CD EF EF GG.
Sometimes this pattern changes, which can tell you something about the importance of the line.