Il-Gwon Sohn. 2017. Acoustic Characteristics in the Reciting of English Verse: Focused on Rate. Studies in Modern Grammar 95, 103-122. The aim of this study is to delineate acoustic characteristics in reciting sonnets with a focus on reciting rate. To observe how different the reciting of sonnets is, they were compared with TOEFL(lecture). The results of the experiment are as followings: (ⅰ) Unlike TOEFL, the number of phonetic syllables in sonnets is nearly equal with that of lexical syllables. (ⅱ) The pauses of sonnets are not related with phonation time, whereas in TOEFL they are related. (ⅲ) The ratio of pause in sonnets’ reciting time is higher than that in TOEFL. (ⅳ) For phonetic syllables, the reciting rate of sonnets is slower than the speech rate of TOEFL, but sonnets and TOEFL have about the same articulation rate. These results indicate that phonetic syllables and pauses make the reciting of sonnets different from TOEFL(lecture).