B. Older animals are usually surly and ill-tempered.- That can be a sentence in itself as well as the second part. Accordingly it is unwise to attempt to pet a grown raccoon. All the semicolon is doing is combining two sentences to make them one.
Answer:
the image of light.
Explanation:
honestly, I don't know but the others weren't being mentioned in the paragraph.
Answer: Because they don't have five feet in the line or don't have an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one like iambic pentameter requires.
Explanation: In poetry, an Iambic Pentameter is a metrical speech that has 5 feet on every line. A foot is a pair of syllables in which there is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.
The lines "As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed" and "With raven’s feather from unwholesome fen" follow the rules of iambic pentameter, while the line "Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!" has just four feet, and the line "Drop on you both! A southwest blow on ye" doesn't have the unstressed syllables at first.
B. it is an English sonnet
1 is a, 2 is b, 3 is b, 4 is c, 5 is a, 6 is b, 7 is b, 8 is a