A) because he says his lover is lovely like summer(Shall I compare the to a summer’s day?), but that summer ends( And summer’s lease hath all too short a date) the he says the loveliness will live on forever (But thy eternal summer shall not fade) because he wrote about it (When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st- So long lives this, and gives life to thee.)
1. written down/ wouldn't be
If we had simply written down the instructions like we were told to, we wouldn't be so confused now.
It is called an analysis because you are “analyzing” the meaning of “Ring Around the Rosy.”
The correct answer is B. it does not follow a formal structure.
Let us first go through all of these options in order to determine the structural characteristics of <em>Forgetfulness, </em>by Billy Collins.
Option A is incorrect - if you count the syllables in each line, you will see that the first one has 11, the second one 13, and so on - so, not 10.
Option C is also incorrect - there are actually 8 stanzas, and they are not of equal length.
Option D is also incorrect - there are no rhymes in this poem.
So, by the process of elimination, the correct answer is B - this poem doesn't follow a formal structure - it is rather a free verse poem containing stanzas of varying lengths.
