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Question: Does this sonnet include iambic pentamiters,a couplet and a quatrain !?
Global warming is ruining our planet!. (A)
It is extremely bad for the people!. (B)
Let’s all try to stop it now lets slam it!. (A) Lets cry it from the churches steeple!. (B)

Now start to pick up litter from the ground!. (C)
Take it from our public space clean up our place!. (D)
Litter gets people down let’s turn it all around!. (C)
You’ll be chased and then put in your place!. (D)

Recycle your rubbish paper, glass and card!. (E)
If you don’t fines will be doubled!. (F)
Remember to put it out in your front yard!. (E)
People get mixed up and extremely troubled!. (F)

Tidy up our special planet quick (G)
We all hope you are so cleaver like the lady’s on sticks!. (G)
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
it does not have iambic pentameter!.

the way you can tell is in the way you can say it!.!.
for example, shakespeare used iambic pentameter like in this:

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:


iambic is short/long pronunciation!. and pentatmeter is five feet (so 5 sets of short/long!.

Shall (short) I (long) com(short)pare(long) thee(short) to(long) a(short) sum(long)mer's(short) day(long)

so to make one up for you this would work:
I eat and drink and chase the birds away


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Just remember that iambic pentameter dictates that each line have ten syllables!. The first in unstressed, the second stressed, the third unstressed, etc!. (think "da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM"

The line "it IS extREMEly BAD for THE peoPLE!." is close, though the last syllable doesn't really sound correct stressed, so even that could be better!. ex- "it IS extREMEly BAD for ALL the EARTH!."

It does have a couplet, which would be the last two lines of the sonnet because it's a group of two and they rhyme!.

It also has a quatrain!. A quatrain is a group of four lines!. You have three of those!.Www@QuestionHome@Com