What characteristics of a sonnet are shown in lines 1-2 of shakespeare’s “sonnet 18”?

sonnets are 140 syllable poems

- in iambic pentameter

+ 5 iambs per line

» unstressed, stressed

+ 10 syllables per line

- 14 lines

+ 3 groups of 4

+ 1 group of 2

- with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef g

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dr. kings dream speech

explanation:

it was late in the day and hot, and after a long march and an afternoon of speeches about federal legislation, unemployment and racial and social justice, the rev. dr. martin luther king jr. finally stepped to the lectern, in front of the lincoln memorial, to address the crowd of 250,000 gathered on the national mall.