The lines, “She was a worthy woman al hir lyve:/ Housbondes at cherche dore she hadde five”, are an…
The lines are a rhyming pentameter couplet, the heroic-couplet form. They are neither unrhymed blank verse, a comic clerihew nor free verse.
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The lines, “She was a worthy
woman al hir lyve:/ Housbondes at
cherche dore she hadde five”, are an
example of
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Correct answer C
The lines are a rhyming pentameter couplet, the heroic-couplet form. They are neither unrhymed blank verse, a comic clerihew nor free verse.
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