Question

Read the excerpt from "Remember” by Christina Rossetti.

Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

How is the idea that happiness is more important than a sad memory emphasized in the last two lines of the excerpt?

through rhyming words
through stressed syllables
through repeated words
through the use of a tercet

Answer 1

Answer: terecet.
Although there is some rhyming in the first few lines, the 3rd line does not rhyme. There are no stressed syllables or repeated words. So the only answer it could be is the last.

Answer 2

through the use of a tercet

it cant be 1 because there is no rhyming in those last 2 lines

it couldnt be 2 becauwe the symbols being stressed arent significant to the topic of the poem

and it couldnt be 3 because the words being repeated dont emphasize the importance of happiness