Question

1. choose the best answer.

read the poem; then answer the question that follows.
sonnet 104
by william shakespeare
to me, fair friend, you never can be old,
for as you were when first your eye i eyed,
such seems your beauty still. three winters cold
have from the forests shook three summers’ pride,
three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn’d
in process of the seasons have i seen,
three april perfumes in three hot junes burn’d,
since first i saw you fresh, which yet are green.
ah, yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand,
steal from his figure and no pace perceived;
so your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
hath motion and mine eye may be deceived:
for fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred;
ere you were born was beauty’s summer dead.
the final two lines of the poem form a(n) ______.
○ couplet
○ quatrain
○ iambic pentameter
○ sonnet
○ diamante

Explanation:

A couplet is a pair of consecutive lines in a poem that often rhyme. In Shakespearean sonnets, the final two lines typically form a couplet. The other options:

• A quatrain is a group of four lines.
• Iambic pentameter is a metrical pattern (not a grouping of lines).
• A sonnet is the whole 14 - line poem.
• A diamante is a different type of poem (diamond - shaped in structure, usually with 7 lines).

Answer:

couple