Question

Highlight the FIVE iambs, below: 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, And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

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Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

An iamb is a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, with the first syllable being unstressed and the second syllable being stressed. Here are the five iambs in the given line:

"Shall I"

"compare thee"

"to a summer's"

"day? Thou"

"art more lovely"

Note that the stressed syllables are bolded in the iambs above.