WAEC - Literature In English (2000 - No. 13)

" Soft as he mourned, the streams forgot to flow
She flocks around a dumb compassion show "
" Soft as he mourned, the streams forgot to flow
She flocks around a dumb compassion show "
" Soft as he mourned, the streams forgot to flow
She flocks around a dumb compassion show "
The above lines constitute a
couplet
rhythm
tercet
rhyme

Explanation

A couplet is a pair of consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and have the same meter. The lines provided in the question rhyme with each other ("flow" and "show") and appear to form a complete thought which is characteristic of a couplet.

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