JAMB - Literature In English (1981 - No. 35)
In these lines from Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale'
'The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense as though of hemlock I had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',
the poet uses
'The heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense as though of hemlock I had drunk Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains one minute past and Lethe-wards had sunk',
the poet uses
alternative rhymes
heroic couplet
bank verse
octosyllabic metre
terza rima.
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