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POETRY ASSIGNMENT (10 MARKS)

I. Read the following lines and answer the questions below. (4 marks)

Where the bee sucks, there suck I:

In a cowslips bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bats back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

1. What is the rhyme scheme of these lines?

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2. What is the sound device used in the line There I couch when owls do cry?

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3. What is the sound device used in the line Merrily, merrily shall I live now?

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4. This stanza contains 7 lines. What is a seven line stanza called?

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II. Mention the figures of speech, imagery, or musical devices in the

following lines. (6 marks)

1. Autumn brushes her hair slowly

Letting the glorious colors
flow gently to the earth below.

Figure of Speech: ______________________________

2. Like two blossoms on one stem,

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Like two flakes of new-falln snow,

Like two wands of ivory
Tippd with gold for awful kings.

Figure of Speech: ______________________________

3. The shivered shaft rises from a shell heap

Sound/Musical device: ______________________________

4. Love is a burning candle

It's not always easy to handle

Figure of Speech: ______________________________

5. The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft,

And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Redbreast: the robin (a red bird) Garden-croft: a farm where there is a garden
Swallows: small birds Twitter: sound of the swallows

Type of Imagery: __________________________________

6. Chocolates, Chocolates, Chocolates,

Milk- chocolate, Mint-chocolate and semi-sweet,
Yummy dark chocolate is such a treat.

Type of Imagery: __________________________________

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