Question

(04.04 MC)

Read the following poem carefully before you choose your
The following poem is addressed to a friend of the speaker.
Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;
Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,
And do not drop in for an after-loss:
(5) Ah, do not, when my heart has 'scaped this sorrow,
Come in the rearward of a conquered woe;
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
To linger out a purposed overthrow.
If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
(10) When other petty griefs have done their spite;
But in the onset come, so shall I taste
At first the very worst of fortune's might;
And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so.
(1609)
Which lines serve as the couplet in the poem?
O Lines 1 and 2
O Lines 3 and 4
O Lines 5 and 6
O Lines 11 and 12

Answer 1

The couplet in the Shakespearean sonnet is typically the last two lines. In the provided poem, the couplet refers to lines 13 and 14, which form the conclusion of the sonnet.

The question asks to identify the couplet in the provided poem. A couplet is a pair of successive lines of verse that typically rhyme and have the same metre, often forming a distinct section at the end of a sonnet.

In Shakespearean sonnets, this couplet usually serves as a conclusion or a summing up of the themes presented in the quatrains that precede it. The poem in question appears to be in the format of a Shakespearean sonnet, marked by its 14 lines and iambic pentameter, concluding with a rhyming couplet.

As sonnets generally follow the structure of three quatrains followed by a final couplet, the last two lines of the sonnet (lines 13 and 14) form the couplet.