Which meter is used in these lines from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18? 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, dactylic hexameter iambic pentameter trochaic tetrameter spondaic dimeter trochaic trimeter

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12 May, 23:44

Which meter is used in these lines from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18? 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, dactylic hexameter iambic pentameter trochaic tetrameter spondaic dimeter trochaic trimeter

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Brody Cohen · Answer 1

Oo I recently learned meter in school. Sorry, I didn't see this question earlier. I believe this section of the Sonnet 18 is written in Iambic Pentameter. We know it is iambic because we are able to stress every other syllable.

Just a little hint: Not all, but most poems are written in iambic. Even a lot of pop songs now-a-days are written in iambic meter; )

I believe Shakespeare had about 150 sonnets and only a few were not written in iambic. Crazy.