This question is based on selected poems from Johnson, R. et all (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.):Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and V...

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"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell is written mainly in heroic couplets. A heroic couplet is a pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter, which means each line has ten syllables and follows a pattern of unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The poem consists of three stanzas, each comprising of heroic couplets. The rhyme scheme is AABB, which means that the first two lines of each stanza rhyme with each other, as do the third and fourth lines.