The iambs per line that a Shakespearean sonnet contain is option D: five iambs.
What do you mean by term iambs?
The iamb is refers to as a combination of unstressed syllables and stressed syllables. Stressed syllables are the longest syllables and have the strongest sound.
If you read the line of the sonnet aloud, you can get a pattern of 10 syllables, in which pairs of an unstressed syllable and a stressed syllable form. Five pairs are formed, so the line has five iambs.
Each iamb contains two syllables which brings to the total to 10 syllables, that is, 5 iambs = a iambic pentameter.
Therefore, correct option is D.
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