I need help with 2 questions for this poem:
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
-I say it is B.
2. The dominant figure of speech in lines 13-15 is
A. alliteration
B. assonance
C. simile
D. metaphor
E. imagery
-I say it is D.
Am i right?
thank you
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