Question

read shakespeare’s \sonnet 19.\ devouring time, blunt thou the lion’s paws, and make the earth devour her own sweet brood; pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger’s jaws, and burn the long-liv’d phoenix, in her blood; make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets, and do whate’er thou wilt, swift-footed time, to the wide world and all her fading sweets; but i forbid thee one most heinous crime: o! carve not with thy hours my love’s fair brow, nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen; him in thy course untainted do allow for beauty’s pattern to succeeding men. yet, do thy worst old time: despite thy wrong, my love shall in my verse ever live young. which features make this an example of a shakespearean sonnet? select three options. ☐ the abab, cdcd, efef, gg rhyme scheme ☐ the groupings of two stressed syllables ☐ the widespread use of iambic pentameter ☐ the use of three quatrains followed by a couplet ☐ the fact that the final lines summarize the preceding lines

Explanation:

1. Widespread use of iambic pentameter: Shakespearean sonnets are written in iambic pentameter, which has a pattern of unstressed - stressed syllables, and this sonnet follows that.
2. Use of three quatrains followed by a couplet: A Shakespearean sonnet structure is three quatrains (four - line stanzas) and then a couplet (two - line stanza), and "Sonnet 19" has this structure.
3. Final lines summarize preceding lines: The last two lines (couplet) of a Shakespearean sonnet often summarize or give a conclusion to the ideas in the quatrains, and here the final lines about the love living young in verse summarize the earlier ideas about Time and the love's beauty.

The option "the abab, cdcd, efef, gg rhyme scheme" is for a Petrarchan sonnet, not Shakespearean. The option "the groupings of two stressed syllables" is incorrect as iambic pentameter has one stressed syllable per foot (not two grouped).

Answer:

• the widespread use of iambic pentameter
• the use of three quatrains followed by a couplet
• the fact that the final lines summarize the preceding lines