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21 April, 19:52

Read the excerpt from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause: there's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life;

This excerpt is an example of

blank verse.

free verse.

heroic couplet.

common meter.

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  1. 21 April, 20:04
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    The correct answer is Blank Verse
  2. 21 April, 23:04
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    Blank verse

    This is because neither a rhyme scheme nor an iambic parameter is being followed in these verse.
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