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It depends on your definition of "line". In the bits written in iambic pentameter, all the lines are the same length, ten syllables. Lines written in iambic tetrameter like "Double, double, toil and trouble" have eight. It is the sections which are in prose which have no rhythmic divisions of this kind, and may contain sentences which are much longer, although verse sections also contain long sentences which are broken up into ten-syllable segments. But actors sometimes talk about a line as what your character has to say before someone else does. In this sense lines can range from "Death" in King John to the Archbishop's interminable explanation of why it's OK for King Henry to attack France in Henry V Act 1.

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