1. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Irony.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Hyperbole.

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

3. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Sibilance and euphony.
(b) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(c) Consonance and inversion.
(d) Alliteration and antithesis.

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

5. Although the speaker has indicated that each lover is a complete world, where does the diction suggest that each is actually incomplete without the other?
(a) Line 19 "equally."
(b) Line 11, "one little room."
(c) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(d) Line 17, "hemispheres."

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word in lines 15-18 is meant to contrast the impermanent nature of life outside the lovers' relationship with the eternal nature of their love?

2. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

3. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

4. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

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

(see the answer key)

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