Question

Shakespeare's characters often spoke in poetry, throughout a play. What Rhythm (or metre) and line length did he usually use?

1.Ten beats (syllables) a line, iambic pentameter

2.Twelve beats (syllables) a line, iambic hexameter

3.Eight beats (syllables) a line, iambic tetrameter

Answer 1

A. Ten beats (syllables) a line, iambic pentameter

Step-by-step explanation:

"It is used both in early forms of English poetry and in later forms; William Shakespeare famously used iambic pentameter in his plays and sonnets. As lines in iambic pentameter usually contain ten syllables, it is considered a form of decasyllabic verse."