Question

Read these two lines from the poem:
Within his bending sickle's compass come;

It is the star to every wandering bark,
Which sound devices are used to emphasize the poet’s view in these lines?
assonance in the first line, rhyme in the second line
alliteration in the first line, assonance in the second line
consonance in the first line, rhyme in the second line
consonance in the first line, alliteration in the second line

Answer 1

Sonnet CXVI
by William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

Answer 2

@shifuyanli

Answer 3

I think it is A.

Answer 4

what do you thinK @col

Answer 5

nope not A

Answer 6

I do not see how it could be B C or D

Answer 7

well it is

Answer 8

look at B

Answer 9

Could you explain.

Answer 10

alliteration~the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Answer 11

assonance in the second line because of stAR and bARk and evERy and wandERing

Answer 12

yep

Answer 13

there is also alliteration in the second line

Answer 14

But thank you :)

Answer 15

i did not say that i said alliteration in the first

Answer 16

B was correct... right?

Answer 17

yes :)

Answer 18

Ok good!

Answer 19

:D