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Listen to and read three poems about love. • Answer the questions alongside each poem. SONNET My mistress’ eyes are nothing

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Ширяева Инна

Sonnet
1 It signals that some words or parts of words are contracted for the sake of rhythm.
This often happens in a poem. The full form is “damasked”.
2 The woman.
3 “Compare” is a noun by function here (the preposition “with” is the indicator here).
4 The lines are rhymed according to the following pattern ABAB CDCD EFEFGG.
5 They contain the message, for example, the idea the author wanted to share with
the readers.
A Red, Red Rose.
1 “Luve” is ScotE for “love”. Other cases are “bonnic”, “gang” (go), “weel” (well).
2 “Till all the seas”. Other cases are “o’life” (of life), “tho” (though). They are contracted
for rhythm and to give a pleasant sound.
3 ABCB; lines A and C often contain a repetition, for example, in verses 1 and 4 “O,
my luve is”, in verse 3 “my dear”.
4 The repetition of such sounds as [w], [1], [aij, (i) (alliteration).
From “The Light that Failed”.
1 “She would have none of my great poses” - “pose” especially in BrE behaviour by
which someone pretends to behave like a fashionable, rich, intelligent, etc. person in
order to make other people notice them or admire them. The line may mean “She wasn’t
interested in my attempts to impress her”.
2 It obviously means “heavenly love”, a love that does not exist.
3 АAВВ CCDD EEFF