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Shakespeare wrote most of his plays and poems in a set
with five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables per line.
is it sonnet, meter, or quatrain?

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Answer:

This is a sonnet

Explanation:

A sonnet is a 14 lines poem with an octave (two quatrains with four lines each) and a sestet. A sestet is a stanza which consists of six lines.

Here, in this question, Shakespeare wrote his poem comprising of five pairs of line (5 * 2 = 10 lines).

A Sonnets uses iambic pentameter ( pattern of unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllables) followed by a set of rhyme scheme

This is a sonnet

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