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Work without Hope
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair--
The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
And Winter slumbering in the open air,
Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring!
And I the while, the sole unbusy thing,
Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
Yet, well I ken the banks where amaranths blow,
Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow.
Bloom, O ye amaranths! bloom for whom ye may,
For me ye bloom not! Glide, rich streams, away!
With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll:
And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live.
The 14 lines of this poem identify it as a(n)
Responses
A balladballad
B epicepic
C haikuhaiku
D sonnet
D sonnet
D sonnet
The correct answer is D) sonnet.
To determine the correct answer, you need to understand the characteristics of a sonnet and compare them to the given poem. A sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter and follows a specific rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme of a sonnet can vary depending on the type, but the most common is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
In the given poem, "Work without Hope" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, it consists of 14 lines, which meets the criterion for a sonnet. However, you cannot determine the exact rhyme scheme based on the given excerpt. Therefore, without the full poem, you cannot definitively identify the rhyme scheme, but based on the structure and length of the poem, it can be concluded that it is a sonnet.