Question

Look at the following two lines from Romeo and Juliet. What type of verse are they?

Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight.
For I n'er saw true beauty till this night.
(Act 1, Scene 5, lines 50–51)

a. blank verse
b. couplet
c. quatrain
d. sonnet
e. tetrameter

Answer 1

Answer: They are a couplet, B.

Step-by-step explanation:

Typically, a couplet comprises of two lines that follow each other, rhyme, and have the same meter.

All the other options are incorrect.

a) is incorrect as, blank verse is a literary term that refers to poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.

c) is incorrect as, a quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.

d) is incorrect as, a sonnet is a type of fourteen-line poem that is structured with 2 quatrains and a stanza of 6 lines.

e) is incorrect as, a tetrameter is a line of four metrical feet.