What is this poem about?
A man trying to discover his lover’s secret.
A man trying to persuade his lover to sleep with him.
A man trying to persuade his lover to leave him.
The poem is written using what form?
Iambic pentameter
Rhyming couplets
Blank verse
The first stanza of the poem contains the following line: ‘A hundred years should go to praise/Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;’ What is this an example of?
Deliberate exaggeration
Romantic understatement
Poetic realism
The following line is at the end of the second stanza: ‘The grave's a fine and private place, / But none, I think, do there embrace.’ ‘I think’ is enclosed by parenthetical commas – what is the effect of this?
To convince us - and the lover - that the speaker has logically reached a conclusion.
To qualify the point he is making.
To demonstrate uncertainty about what is being proposed.
The line “yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity” suggests what?
They will have to emigrate to another country.
Old age will bring nothing but hardship.
There is no life after death.
The following lines “while the youthful hue / Sits on thy skin like morning dew" are an example of what?
Simile
Alliteration
Metaphor