1. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Polysyndeton.
(b) Diacope.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Epistrophe.

2. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Appositive.
(c) Pun.
(d) Metonymy.

3. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?
(a) It is boring.
(b) It is ugly.
(c) It is cold.
(d) It is stressful.

4. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

5. What is the dominant meter of this poem?
(a) Trochaic hexameter.
(b) Iambic pentameter.
(c) Iambic hexameter.
(d) Trochaic pentameter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which term best describes the rhyming in lines 13 and 14, "Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one"?

2. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

3. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

4. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

5. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

(see the answer key)

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