Analyzing the Content of Poetry

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CLEP Humanities › Analyzing the Content of Poetry

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Passage adapted from "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson (1890)

Because I could not stop for Death—

He kindly stopped for me—

The Carriage held but just Ourselves—

And Immortality.

We slowly drove—He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility—

What is the rhyme scheme for the above poem?

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Passage adapted from "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson (1890)

Because I could not stop for Death—

He kindly stopped for me—

The Carriage held but just Ourselves—

And Immortality.

We slowly drove—He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility—

What is the rhyme scheme for the above poem?

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The medieval work that followed its author's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven is __________.

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The medieval work that followed its author's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven is __________.

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John Milton’s Paradise Lost features which figure as its main character?

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John Milton’s Paradise Lost features which figure as its main character?

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Which of these figures was in limbo in Dante Alighieri's fourteenth century epic poem The Divine Comedy?

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Which of these figures was in limbo in Dante Alighieri's fourteenth century epic poem The Divine Comedy?

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Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

The above lines are from which poem?

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Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

The above lines are from which poem?

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