Sonnet 73

What is a Quatrain?

• A runaway train

• A four line rhyming stanza

• A four line rhyming paragraph

• A pair of rhyming lines

A couplet is ...

• A loving elderly couple

• A pair of rhyming lines

• ordered pattern of rhymes

• 2 letters in a poem that rhyme

Shakespeare uses the following rhyme scheme for "Sonnet 73" ...

• None display the rhyme scheme used

• AABB CDED FGFG HH

• ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

• AAAB CDCD EFEF HH

What is the Speaker's purpose in "Sonnet 73"?

• to entertain

• to argue

• to persuade

• to inform

Who is the speaker in Sonnet 73?

• A person who is nearing the final stage/s of his or her life

• A person who has been dumped or rejected

• A person who has just fallen in love

• A person who has lost a loved one

Which two themes best relate to "Sonnet 73"?

• Marriage and Aging

• Life and Death

• Love and Death

• Seasons of life

In Shakespearean Sonnets, where are couplets placed?

• At the beginning

• In the middle

• At the very end

• There are no couplets in Sonnets.

What does the term "it" represent in this line:

"As the death-bed, whereon it must expire,"

• life

• youth

• the fire

What is being described here?:

"Death's second self that seals up all in rest."

• the morning hours bringing about a new day

• the nighttime hours sealing all things up peacefully

• the speaker being sealed up in his coffin

• the birds being sealed in their cage/s

In "Sonnet 73", what time of year is it?

• Fall

• Winter

• Spring

• Fall transitioning to Winter