Read Sonnet 65 by William Shakespeare:

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,

But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,

How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,

Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out

Against the wreckful siege of battering days,

When rocks impregnable are not so stout,

Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?

O fearful meditation! where, alack,

Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?

Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?

Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?

O! none, unless this miracle have might,

That in black ink my love may still shine bright.

Which lines contain a rhyming couplet?

Question 1 options:

lines 1-2

lines 3-4

line 2 and line 4

lines 13-14

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Brittany Reid

8 August, 09:36

Read Sonnet 65 by William Shakespeare:

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,

But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,

How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,

Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out

Against the wreckful siege of battering days,

When rocks impregnable are not so stout,

Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?

O fearful meditation! where, alack,

Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?

Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?

Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?

O! none, unless this miracle have might,

That in black ink my love may still shine bright.

Which lines contain a rhyming couplet?

Question 1 options:

lines 1-2

lines 3-4

line 2 and line 4

lines 13-14

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Abigayle Rojas · Answer 1

A rhyming couplet is two lines of the same length that rhyme and complete one thought.

I believe that is going to be line 13 and 14

O! none, unless this miracle have might,

that in black ink my love will still shine bright