Question

Read William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18. Note that it is divided into three quatrains followed by a concluding couplet.Which two signals indicate the start of the third quatrain in line nine?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.


A. There is a shift in topic.

B. There is a stanza brake.

C. The line uses a caesura.

D. The rhyme scheme changes.

Answer 1

Answer: A- there is shift in topic

B-there is a stanza brake

Explanation:

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Answer 2

The two signals which indicate the start of the third quatrain in line nine are:

• A:  There is a shift in topic.
• B: There is a stanza break.

In the third quatrain, the speaker no longer compares his lover to the sun, he points out the difference using "But" thus changing the topic and says that his lover's beauty will not fade away, it is immortalized in this sonnet - which the final couplet confirms.