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When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, Which syllables are stressed in the line above? Select one: a. -ty, -ters, be-, thy b. for-, win-, shall, -siege, brow c. for-, win-, …
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When forty winters shall besiege thy brow, Which syllables are stressed in the line above? Select one: a. -ty, -ters, be-, thy b. for-, win-, shall, -siege, brow c. for-, win-, …
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When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
Which syllables are stressed in the line above?
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a. -ty, -ters, be-, thy
b. for-, win-, shall, -siege, brow
c. for-, win-, -siege, brow
d. When, -ty, -ters, be-, thy
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Taking into consideration the natural stress that each word has, we can easily identify the stress patter in this line. First, we start with those words which have more than one syllable, and identify the stress pattern within them.
FORty
WINters
beSIEGE
In the context of the sentence, they look like this:
when FORty WINters shall
beSIEGE by you.
The words
for
ty
win
ters
are the clue here as they establish a pattern of stressed+unstressed that can be used for the rest of the sentence.
when FORty WINters SHALL beSIEGE by YOU.
Therefore, your best answer is option B.
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