Which meter is used in these lines from Shakespeare's 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 Choice's are A) dactylic hexameterB) iambic pentameterC) trochaic tetrameterD) spondaic dimeterE) trochaic trimeter
the meter that is used in those lines from Shakespeare's sonnet 18 is : B. Iambic pentameter in this kind of meter, a line of verse will have five metrical feet, each consisting one short syllable followed by long syllable.
The meter that is used in this Shakespearean sonnet is iambic pentameter. Shakespeare frequently uses this meter in both his plays and his sonnets. However, the meter is also used so much by other authors that it is considered the most common meter in English poetry. It consists of a series of five "feet." These feet are made up of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
