Question

Read the final stanza of "A Red, Red Rose."

And fare thee weel, my only luve!
And fare thee weel a-while!
And I will come again, my luve,
Tho' it were ten thousand mile.

How does this stanza change the mood of the poem?
Question 5 options:


It suggests that the speaker will actually be leaving his love soon.


It suggests a happy ending to the speaker's expressions of love.


It suggests that the speaker is soon to be married.


It suggests that the speaker is afraid his love does not return his feelings.




Read the following stanza.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Based on the use of made-up language in this stanza, which choice best characterizes this poem?
Question 4 options:


a haiku


a nonsense poem


a sonnet


a limerick

Answer 1

A. Haiku.. From the above

Answer 2

Answer:

1.

"And fare thee weel, my only luve!

And fare thee weel a-while!

And I will come again, my luve,

Tho' it were ten thousand mile."

The mood changes in the last paragraph of the poem "A Red Red Rose" by Robert Burns. The three passages that precede the last paragraph has some reassurance and security in the love of the speaker, The speaker suddenly changes from complimenting and reassuring his beloved to a melancholic tone of bidding goodbye even though for "a-while!". This "while can be stretched to "ten thousand mile".

2.

"`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe."

This passage and its use of made-up language best features a nonsense poem.