Question

“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.
which is an example of a couplet from shakespeares “sonnet 18”?
but thy eternal
summer shall not
fade,
nor lose
possession of that
fair thou ow’st,
sometime too hot
the eye of heaven
shines,
and often is his
gold complexion
dimm’d,
so long as men
can breathe or
eyes can see,
so long lives this,
and this gives life
to thee.
shall i compare
thee to a summer’s
day?
thou art more
lovely and more
temperate:

Explanation:

A couplet in a sonnet (specifically a Shakespearean sonnet) is a pair of consecutive lines that rhyme and typically conclude the sonnet. Looking at "Sonnet 18", the last two lines are "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." These two lines rhyme ("see" and "thee") and form the closing couplet. Among the options, the one with these two lines is the couplet.

Answer:

The option with "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee." (the bottom - left option in the given choices).