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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Sonnets. Shakespeare had more of 'em than

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he had lawsuits from the Roman Empire.

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According to lines 5 and 6, "much pleasure" derives from what?

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And here are the potential answers...

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Well... what does much pleasure usually derive from?

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A warm bowl of mac n' cheese?

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Spending time with friends?

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Something... we can't really say in a G-rated video?

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Okay, sure... sources of pleasure are plentiful.

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But what about in the poem at hand?

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From what is "much pleasure" derived?

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Here are lines 5 and 6:

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From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,

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Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow.

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This whole thing is really just a question about syntax.

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Can we rearrange these words into an order that makes a little more sense to us...

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...so we can figure out what the heck the author was trying to tell us?

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The easiest way to decipher a particularly confusing line is to take the fragment in question and move it to the front.

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In which case we have, "Much pleasure from rest and sleep."

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And boom -- there's our answer.

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We don't even need to check out the rest of the answers.

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It doesn't matter if another word, like "pictures," appears physically closer in the poem...

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...it's all about taking the syntax and making it... less taxing.

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Answer A.

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Hopefully, you derived "much pleasure" from this video. We aim to please.

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