JAMB - Literature In English (1980 - No. 28)

'Fast fading violets covered up in leaves
And mid May's eldest child
The coming must-rose full of dewy wine
The murmurous haunt of files on summer eves'.
('Ode to a nightingale')
The poetic beauty of the last line owes to the use of
smile
onomatopeia
metaphor
archaism
metonymy

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