"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
These words are not in a play. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the first line of Shakespeare's sonnet number XVIII (18), officially dedicated to the Dark Lady.
There are five iambic feet in a line from Sonnet 18 which consists of ten syllables alternating in stress pattern, such as: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
An iamb in this poem is the same as in any other poem, it is part of the rhythm of the poem where two syllables together are stressed in a particular way. The first syllable is a light and the second a heavy beat, de-dum.Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
the first line of the poem is: 2 syllables second line: 4 syllables third line: 6 syllables fourth line: 8 syllables fifth line: 2 syllables
There is 4 syllables in "line high is sky". The syllables are line-high-is-sky.
in second line of a haiku there is 7 syllables
first line- five syllables second line- seven syllables third line- five syllables
The first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables, and the third line has five syllables
"The second line" has four syllables.
a hexaduad is a poem consisting of 6 couplets. each couplet rhyme couplet1-each line has 2 syllables couplet2-each line has 6 syllables couplet3-each line has 8 syllables couplet4-each line has 4 syllables couplet5each line has 6 syllables couplet6-each line has 4 syllables
Line 1: 5 syllables Line 2: 5 syllables Line 3: 7 syllables Line 4: 7 syllables Line 5: 5 syllables Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme. Lines 3 and 4 rhyme.
There are 5 syllables in the first line, then there is 7 syllables in the second line and then there is 5 more syllables in the last line