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What characteristics of a sonnet are shown in lines 1-2 of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”?

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sonnets are 140 syllable poems

- in iambic pentameter

+ 5 iambs per line

» unstressed, stressed

+ 10 syllables per line

- 14 lines

+ 3 groups of 4

+ 1 group of 2

- with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef g

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