Hello! I need some help with some questions regarding these poems:
Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear!
Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend
To make this creature fruitful!
Into her womb convey sterility!
Dry up in her the organs of increase; [5]
And from her derogate body never spring
A babe to honour her! If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen; that it may live,
And be a thwart disnatured torment to her!
Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth; [10]
With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;
Turn all her mother's pains and benefits
To laughter and contempt; that she may feel
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child! Away, away! [15]
1. Lines 6-7 contain an example of
A. alliteration
B. enjambment
C. villanelle
D. internal rhyme
**E. onomatopoeia
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Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile -- the Winds --
To a Heart in port --
Done with the Compass --
Done with the Chart!
Rowing in Eden --
Ah, the Sea!
Might I but moor --
Tonight --In Thee!
2. Allowing for some variation, which best describes the rhyme scheme for the stanzas in this poem.
A. abbb
**B. abcb
C. heroic couplets
D. slant rhyme
E. abba
3. What is the most common metrical variation in the poem, looking especially at line 1 as an example?
**A. spondee
B. anapest
C. dactyl
D. troche
E. pyrrhic
4. Which best describes the rhyme in the second stanza?
**A. Internal rhyme
B. slant rhyme
C. feminine rhyme
D. descending rhyme
E. no rhyme at all
5. What does the poet manipulate most to help convey that tone?
A. setting
**B. rhyme
C. meter
D. syntax
E. diction
Am I correct? Thank you!
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