The typical Shakespearean Sonnet contains A. 4 B. 10 C. 12

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The typical Shakespearean Sonnet contains A. 4 B. 10 C. 12 D. 14 lines. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day (Sonnet 18) by William Shakespeare 1- 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: 5- 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:² 2 9- But thy eternal Summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,³ Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: 13-So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,