THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (A).THE NUMBER OF LINES, THE METER,THE LACK...

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The correct answer is (A).

The number of lines, the meter,

the lack of an ending couplet, and the rhyme scheme mark this

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poem as a Petrarchan sonnet. Whenever a poem has fourteen

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lines, it may very well be a sonnet. Ballad, choice (B); lyric,

choice (C); and ode, choice (E), usually have many stanzas and

are rarely written in iambic pentameter. Because Shakespearean

sonnets have a rhyme scheme of

abba, abba, efef, gg,

choice

(D) is inappropriate.