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Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 100."
Where art thou Momentan ou forget'st so long
To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
Spend'st thou thy tury on some worthless song.
Darkening thy power to land base subjects light?
Return, forgetful Muse, and straight redeem
In gentle numbers time so idly spent;
Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem
And gives thy pen both skill and argument.
Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,
If Time have any wrinkle graven there;
If any, be a satire to decay,
And make Time's spoils despised every where.
Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life;
So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.
The underlined section is referred to as a(n)
O couplet
O iamb.
O pentameter.
O quatrain.

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jpshindell13

The underlined section of the sonnet is a **quatrain**.

A **quatrain** is a four-line stanza, a common unit in various poetic forms. The underlined section clearly consists of four lines ("Return, forgetful Muse, and straight redeem / In gentle numbers time so idly spent; / Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem / And gives thy pen both skill and argument."), making it a quatrain.

While the other options also have relevance to the sonnet:

* **Couplet:** A rhyming pair of lines, while the underlined section does rhyme (redeem/esteem, argument/spent), it includes four lines, not two.

* **Iamb:** A metrical foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, iambic pentameter is a common meter in sonnets. However, "the underlined section" is too vague to define a specific metrical foot, and pentameter refers to a line with five metrical feet, not just any group of words.

* **Pentameter:** As mentioned, this refers to a line with five metrical feet, and while the lines in the underlined section might be pentameter, specifying "the underlined section" doesn't pinpoint a specific metrical feature.

Therefore, the most accurate identification for the underlined section is a **quatrain**.

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