Question

Colin is comparing a pair of sonnets for a paper he’s writing. He is looking at the following sections: …Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will… “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” -William Wordsworth Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold… “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” -John Keats Which sentence correctly describes the two sections? A. The two sections have different rhyme schemes and different meters. B. The two sections have different rhyme schemes and the same meter. C. The two sections have the same rhyme scheme and the same meter. D. The two sections have the same rhyme scheme and different meters.

Answer 1

Answer:

B. The two sections have different rhyme schemes and the same meter.

Explanation:

When you arrange properly the poems that Colin is comparing, you can see that the rhyme scheme in the first one is ABAB and in the second one it is ABBA, so they have different rhyme schemes, but as they both are sonnets they have to have the same meter, so they share the same iambic pentameter that has 10 syllables per verse.

Here the arranged poems with their rhyme scheme:

Never did sun more beautifully steep  A

In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; B

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! A

The river glideth at his own sweet will… B

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,A

And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;B

Round many western islands have I been B

Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold… A

Answer 2

Answer:

B

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