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In Shakespearean or English sonnets, three quatrains are followed by a couplet. What role does the couplet play in these sonnets?

It lets the poet use his or her own voice rather than the speaker's.
It introduces a sudden reversal from what the quatrains have said.
It brings resolution to the poem.
It states the moral of the poem.

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I think the couplet brings resolution to the poem.
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