LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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ABABAB
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ABCDDA
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ABABCCDD
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ABBAABBA
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Detailed explanation-1: -The rhyme scheme is abbaabba cdcdcd. Note that some of the rhymes are not absolute: ways/grace, for example, and faith/breath. These are called half-rhymes and they are included in the assessment of the rhyme scheme. Note that the rhyme scheme divides the poem into two parts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Written as a sonnet, the verse is similar to neither Italian sonnets nor English ones. Unlike both chief types of sonnet form, How do I Love Thee? is composed of two quatrains and one sestet, rhyming in abba abba ababab. Each line of the sonnet, of which metri-cal foot is iambic pentameter, is isochronous.
Detailed explanation-3: -“How do I love thee?” is a sonnet-which is no surprise, since it first appeared in a collection titled Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850). Because it is a sonnet, the poem has 14 lines.