A course of modern english lexicology

The Ottava Rima: "Go, little book, from this my solitude! I cast thee on the waters – go thy ways! And if, as I believe, thy vein be good, The world will find thee after many days." When Southey 's read, and Wordsworth understood, I can't help putting in my claim to praise – The four first rhymes are Southey's every line: For God's sake, reader! take them not for mine. (from “Don Juan” by Byron)

QUESTIONS TO LECTURE #6

1. What is rhyme?
2. What is full rhyme?
3. What is imperfect rhyme?
4. What rhymes do the following groups of words have: great – late; hear the mellow wedding bells; rider – beside her; how now brown cow; strong – string?
5. What is male rhyme?
6. What is female rhyme?
7. What is dactylic rhyme?
8. What types of rhyme do you see in the following groups of words: spent – went; painted – acquainted; battery – flattery; pleasure – treasure?
9. What is the difference between simple and dactylic rhyme?
10. What patterns of rhyme can you distinguish?
11. What is the pattern of the following rhyme: abba?
12. What pattern of rhyme can you distinguish in the following popular nursery rhyme?


Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses and all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!

13. What are the four most popular English stanzas?

14. What is the name of stanza used in the following poem?


The Eve of St. Agnes
ST. AGNES’ Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the flock in woolly fold:
Numb were the Beadsman’s fingers, while he told
His rosary, and while his frosted breath,
Like pious incense from a censer old,
Seem’d taking flight for heaven, without a death,
Past the sweet Virgin’s picture, while his prayer he saith.
(by John Keats (1795–1821))
15. Read the monologue of Hamlet “To be or not to be” in Supplement 7. Learn it by heart.