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...

Assessment: JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 2008 Subject: Literature In English

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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 Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Maduka C.T et al: Exam Focus: Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A.E et al (eds)_: Longman Examination Guides: Nwoga, D.I. (ed.): West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Neked Soles.

Marvel's To His Coy Mistress is written mainly in

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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.

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