language arts 9 s2 25/26
rhyme scheme and rhythm in a sonnet by william shakespeare
\sonnet 18\
shall i compare thee to a summer’s day?
thou art more lovely and more temperate:
rough winds do shake the darling buds of may,
and summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
and often is his gold complexion dimm’d,
and every fair from fair sometime declines,
by chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:
but thy eternal summer shall not fade,
nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
when in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
so long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
read the line from “sonnet 18.”
sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
how many iambs are in the line?
four
eight
ten
five

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# Brief Explanations:
An iamb is a metrical foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Let's analyze the line "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines" by dividing it into syllables and identifying iambs:

1. So - met - ime (wait, no, let's do it properly. Let's break down the line into syllables:

"Sometime" has two syllables: So - met (wait, no, "Sometime" is So - met - ime? No, "Sometime" is actually two syllables: So - met (no, "Sometime" is So - met - ime? Wait, no, let's use the correct pronunciation. Let's write the line with syllables:

So - met - ime (1 - 2 - 3? No, let's do it step by step. Let's take the line: "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"

Let's split into syllables:

1. So (unstressed) - met (stressed) → iamb? Wait, no, iamb is unstressed then stressed. Wait, maybe I made a mistake. Let's do it correctly. Let's write the line with each syllable:

So - met - ime (no, "Sometime" is So - met - ime? No, "Sometime" is two syllables: So - met (no, "Sometime" is So - met - ime? Wait, maybe I should use the standard way. Let's take the line:

"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"

Let's break it into syllables:

1. So (U) - met (S) → iamb? Wait, no, "Sometime" is actually So - met - ime? No, let's count the syllables properly. Let's use the following breakdown:

So - met - ime (no, that's three syllables for "Sometime"? Wait, no, "Sometime" is two syllables: So - met (no, "Sometime" is So - met - ime? I think I'm overcomplicating. Let's use the standard iambic pentameter. Shakespeare's sonnets are in iambic pentameter, which has 5 iambs per line (10 syllables total). Wait, but let's check the line:

"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"

Let's split into syllables:

1. So (U) - met (S) → iamb? No, "Sometime" is So - met - ime? Wait, maybe I should count the number of iambs. Let's do it:

Let's write the line with each iamb (unstressed + stressed):

1. So (U) - met (S) → iamb? No, "Sometime" is So - met - ime? Wait, maybe the correct breakdown is:

So - met - ime (no, let's use the actual pronunciation. Let's take the line:

"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"

Let's split into syllables:

1. So (U) - met (S) → iamb? No, "Sometime" is two syllables: So - met (no, "Sometime" is So - met - ime? I think I'm making a mistake. Let's use the fact that Shakespeare's sonnets are in iambic pentameter, which has 5 iambs (10 syllables) per line. Wait, but the options include five? Wait, no, the options are four, eight, ten, five. Wait, iambic pentameter has 5 iambs (10 syllables). Wait, let's check the line:

"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"

Let's count the syllables:

1. So - met - ime (3) - too (4) - hot (5) - the (6) - eye (7) - of (8) - heav (9) - en (10) - shines (11)? No, that can't be. Wait, maybe I'm mispronouncing. Let's do it correctly:

"Sometime" → So - met (2 syllables)

"too" → 1

"hot" → 1

"the" → 1

"eye" → 1

"of" → 1

"heaven" → heav - en (2 syllables)

"shines" → 1

Total syllables: 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 10. Ah, there we go. So 10 syllables. Now, an iamb is unstressed + stressed. Let's pair them:

1. So (U) - met (S) → iamb

2. too (U) - hot (S) → iamb? Wait, no, "too" is stressed? Wait, no, "too" is unstressed? Wait, maybe the correct iambs are:

1. So (U) - met (S)

2. too (U) - hot (S)

3. the (U) - eye (S)

4. of (U) - heav (S)

5. en (U) - shines (S)? No, that's not right. Wait, maybe the line is:

So - met - ime (no, I'm confused). Wait, the key point is that Shakespeare's sonnets are in iambic pentameter, which has 5 iambs (10 syllables) per line. But the options include five? Wait, no, the options are four, eight, ten, five. Wait, the question is how many iambs. Wait, maybe I made a mistake. Let's re - examine.

Wait, the line "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines" has 10 syllables (let's confirm: So - met (2), too (1), hot (1), the (1), eye (1), of (1), heav - en (2), shines (1). 2 + 1+1+1+1+1+2 + 1=10). Now, an iamb is two syllables (unstressed + stressed). So 10 syllables / 2 syllables per iamb = 5 iambs. Wait, but the options have five as an option. Wait, but let's check the options again. The options are four, eight, ten, five. Wait, maybe I messed up. Wait, no, let's do it again.

Wait, maybe the line is:

"Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines"

Let's split into iambs:

1. So - met (U - S)

2. too - hot (U - S)

3. the - eye (U - S)

4. of - heav (U - S)

5. en - shines (U - S)? No, that's 5 iambs. Wait, but "heaven" is heav - en, so "of heaven" is of (U) - heav (S), and then en (U) - shines (S)? No, that would be 5 iambs (10 syllables). So the number of iambs is 5.

# Answer:
five

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