Question

1. for while i sang—ah swift and strange

love passed and touched me on the brow.
and i who made so many songs
am silent now.
what is the rhyme scheme of this stanza of poetry?

1. all fools have still an itching to deride,

and fain would be upon the laughing side.
what is this two - line rhyming unit of poetry called?

1. the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas

because it implies a comparison between two unlike things without using the word “like” or “as,” what figure of speech is this?

1. and murmuring of innumerable bees

because words are used that imitate the sound they describe, what poetic sound effect is this?

Explanation:

Question 6

A rhyme within a single line of verse is called internal rhyme. We check the definition: internal rhyme occurs when a word in the middle of a line rhymes with another word in the same line. Here, the line "For while I sang—ah swift and strange" (assuming the relevant line for Q6 has internal rhyme; from the text, the question is about rhyme within a single line, so internal rhyme fits.

A two - line rhyming unit in poetry is a couplet. By definition, a couplet is a pair of successive lines of verse, usually rhyming and having the same meter. The two lines "All fools have still an itching to deride, And fain would be upon the laughing side" form a couplet as they are a two - line rhyming (or metrical) unit.

A comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as" is a metaphor. In the phrase "The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas", the moon is directly compared to a ghostly galleon, which is a metaphor (simile uses "like" or "as", metaphor does not).

Answer:

Internal Rhyme

Question 7