This question is missing the options. I've found them online. They are as follows:
The first four lines of the poem make up a
a) couplet
b) quatrain
c) sonnet
The last two lines of the poem make up a
a) couplet
b) quatrain
c) paraphrase
Answer:
The first four lines of the poem make up a b) quatrain
The last two lines of the poem make up a a) couplet
Explanation:
The numbers mentioned in the question already give us the answers. A stanza is a group of lines in a poem. If a stanza has only two lines, it is called a couplet. If the stanza has four lines, it is a quatrain.
In this poem by Shakespeare, the first stanza is:
<em>Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
</em>
<em>Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
</em>
<em>Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
</em>
<em>And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;</em>
It is a quatrain with an ABAB rhyme scheme.
The last stanza is:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Since it is made up of two lines, it is a couplet. The rhyme scheme is GG.
