How many iambs are found in this line from “Sonnet 18”?

four
five
eight
ten

Hi. You did not enter the line of the sonnet the question refers to. This makes it impossible for it to be answered. However, when searching for your question on the internet, I was able to find another question exactly like yours, which showed the line "Rough winds from shake the darling buds of May." If that's the case for you, I hope the answer below will help you.

This line has five iambs and this can be seen because it has five pairs formed by an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

The iamb is a set of unstressed syllables and stressed syllables. Stressed syllables are the longest syllables and have the strongest sound. If you read the line of the sonnet aloud, you can get a pattern of 10 syllables, in which pairs of an unstressed syllable and a stressed syllable form. Five pairs are formed, so the line has five iambs.

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.