Question

Which statement best describes the rhyme schemes of "To My Dear Loving Husband" and "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty"?

Answer 1

Answer:

Both poets use couplets for rhyme scheme and structure, inverting sentences when needed to maintain the rhyme.

Explanation:

In both of these poems, the poets use couplets for rhyme scheme and structure. A couplet is two lines of verse that rhyme with each other. Whenever the regular rhyme was not possible, the poets invert the sentences in order to maintain the rhyme. By using this strategy, the poets ensure that the rhythm and musical quality of the poem is maintained constant throughout it.

Answer 2

The statement which best describes the rhyme schemes of “To My Dear Loving Husband” and “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty” is both poets use couplets for rhyme scheme and structure, inverting sentences when needed to maintain the rhyme. The right alternative is B.  

EXPLANATION

“To My Dear Loving Husband” is a literary work, in the form of a poem, which was written by Anne Bradstreet. The theme of this poem is forceful and powerful love which is able to make two people become one. Conjugal love might be the perfect term to describe the love between the speaker of the poem and her husband. Besides love, the theme of this poem is also about the death of the beloved person and religion which emerges in the poem.  

The meter of “To My Dear Loving Husband” is in the form of iambic pentameter. It is depicted in the line, “if ever wife was happy in a man, / Compare with me, ye women, if you can.” On the other hand, the rhyme scheme of this poem is AABBCCDD and EEFF.  

Move to “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty”, this poem was written in 1768 by Phillis Wheatley. The poem is addressed for both Kind George and God. This poem basically praises King George and wish that people will reward King George as he was such a great king. At the end of the poem, the writer talks to God by saying that she wants God to guard King George.  

“To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty” is in the form of one stanza poem, which consists of fifteen lines. These lines are written in iambic pentameter, although the first line of it is not. The first line of this poem is written in the form of six syllables and in iambic triameter. The first line also doesn’t have rhyme while the other lines are rhymed in heroic couplets.

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KEYWORDS: rhyme scheme, the rhyme scheme of “To the King’s Most Excellent Majesty”, the rhyme scheme of “To My Dear Loving Husband”

Subject: English

Class:  10-12

Sub-chapter: Rhyme scheme