Rhyme, Rhythm, and Visualizing in a Yeats Poem

Question 1

Read this excerpt from “Into the Twilight” by William Butler Yeats.Your mother Eire is always young,Dew ever shining and twilight gray;Though hope fall from you or love decay,Burning in fires of a slanderous tongue.Which pattern describes the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

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ABBA

Question 2

Read this excerpt from “Down by the Salley Gardens” by William Butler Yeats.Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet.She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.Which statement best describes the effect of rhythm on this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The rhythm supports the fast pace of the narrator’s immature love.

Question 3

Read this excerpt from “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats.And when white moths were on the wing,And moth-like stars were flickering out,I dropped the berry in a streamAnd caught a little silver trout.Which words does the poet include to help readers visualize the scene?

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“moth-like stars”

Question 4

Read this excerpt from "The Song of the Old Mother” by William Butler Yeats.And the young lie long and dream in their bedOf the matching of ribbons for bosom and head,And their day goes over in idleness,And they sigh if the wind but lift a tress:While I must work because I am old,And the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold.Which statement best describes the effect of rhyme on this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The rhyme scheme emphasizes the narrator’s dull routine.

Question 5

Read this excerpt from “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats.And when white moths were on the wing,And moth-like stars were flickering out,I dropped the berry in a streamAnd caught a little silver trout.Which statement best describes the effect of rhyme on the poem in this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The predictable rhyme scheme highlights the narrator’s ease and contentment.

Question 6

Read this excerpt from “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats.I will find out where she has gone,And kiss her lips and take her hands;And walk among long dappled grass,And pluck till time and times are doneWhich words does the poet include to help readers visualize the scene?

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"long dappled grass"

Question 7

Read this excerpt from "The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats.I went out to the hazel wood,Because a fire was in my head,And cut and peeled a hazel wand,And hooked a berry to a thread;Which pattern describes the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

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XAXA

Question 8

Read this excerpt from “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats.When I had laid it on the floorI went to blow the fire a-flame,But something rustled on the floor,And someone called me by my nameWhich words in the first line of the excerpt are emphasized by the rhythm of the poem?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

I, laid, on, and floor

Question 9

Read this excerpt from “Into the Twilight” by William Butler Yeats.Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:For there the mystical brotherhoodOf sun and moon and hollow and woodAnd river and stream work out their willWhich statement best describes the effect of rhythm on this excerpt?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

The rhythm supports the cheerful optimism of the poem.

Question 10

Read this excerpt from "The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats.Though I am old with wanderingThrough hollow lands and hilly lands,I will find out where she has gone,And kiss her lips and take her handsWhich pattern describes the rhyme scheme of this stanza?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

XAXA

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