Question

Read this sonnet, and then complete the sentences that follow. Sonnet 4 by Edmund Spenser

Be not dismayed that her unmoved mind
Doth still persist in her rebellious pride:
And love not like to lusts of baser kind,
The harder won, the firmer will abide.
The durefull Oak, whose sap is not yet dried,
Is long ere it conceive the kindling fire;
But when it once doth burn, it doth divide,
 Great heat, and makes his flames to heaven aspire.
So hard it is to kindle new desire,
In gentle breast that shall endure for ever:
Deep is the wound, that dints the parts entire
With chaste affects, that naught but death can sever.
Then think not long in taking little pain,
 To knit the knot, that ever shall remain.
 The sonnet is written in the (Petrarchan/English/Italian) form. The rhyme scheme is (ababbcbccdcdee/abbacddceffege/abcabcdcddcdee) . The main idea of the poem is (lasting love/hope/madness) . The poet has used the (metaphor/simile/personification) of burning an oak to emphasize how patient one needs to be when trying to win the love of a lady. He also uses the metaphor of the (knot/wound/pain) to emphasize the depth of love.

Answer 1

English

ababbcbccdcdee

lasting love

metaphor

wound

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Answer 2

1. English

Edmund Spenser is English. He varied the traditional Shakespearean English sonnet form by changing the rhyme scheme which creates couplet links that connect the quatrains together.

2. abab bcbc cdcd ee

Spenserian sonnets repeat the last rhyme as the first rhyme of the next quatrain. This continuation of a rhyme from quatrain to quatrain ties them together more than previous sonnet forms.

3. lasting love

The poet uses phrases like "endure for ever" and "naught but death can sever" to show how long love can last.

4. metaphor

He is comparing the burning oak to the patience it takes when wooing. He does not use like or as which would indicate a simile. Also, the oak is not being given human traits which is required for personification.

5. knot

He compares the depth of love to a knot so tightly tied and tangled that it cannot be undone.