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HELPP- Which lines are written in iambic pentameter? Check all that apply.

The smoke of my own breath

And what I assume you shall assume

I never saw a moor

Yet certain am I of the spot

And summer's lease hath all too short a date

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st

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ginniharvin

the answer is the last two statements  which is 5 and 6

vaduz

Answer:

And summer's lease hath all too short a date

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st

Explanation:

Iambic pentameter is the use or presence of ten syllabic words in a single line. The lines of the verse contains five metrical feet or iambs, consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The lines provided in the question are from the Sonnet 18 of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was the most famous writers of this metrical form, even writing some of his famous plays in this way.

From the options given in the question, the lines

And summer's lease hath all too short a date

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st

are written in an iambic pentameter form. The stressed and unstressed part will be indicated by bold(stressed) and underlined (unstressed).

And summer's lease hath all too short a date

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st.