II. Read carefully the extracts from poems given after the passages from
prose works. Here, besides doing the tasks set above, try to determine the type of
rhyme and record the rhyming scheme. Scan the passages and describe the
metres employed, determine the verse form (if possible). Find deviations in metre
(if there are any).
1. It is the official start of the hunting season, and every red-blooded
Frenchman takes his gun, his dog, and his murderous inclinations into the hills in
search of sport.
(from
A Year in Provence
by P. Mayle)
2. In the afternoon sun, with the wooden shutters half-closed like sleepy
eyelids, the house was irresistible. (ibid.)
3. It is well known that English kill their lamb twice: once when they slaughter
it, and once when they cook it. (ibid.)
4. A sudden hush falls, and a hundred faces tilt towards her - curious, expectant,
sullen, apathetic - like empty dishes waiting to be filled.
(from
Nice Work
by D.Lodge)
5. So the Nightingale sang to the Oak-Tree, and her voice was like water
bubbling from a silver jar.
(from
The Nightingale and the Rose
by O.Wilde)
6. Richard took up residence in the Red House, threw out all Williams’s cane
furniture, /.../ and installed a wall-to-wall carpet in the living-room, a dishwasher in
the kitchen and, more than occasionally, Miss Bigelow in the bedroom.
(from
Kane and Abel
by J.Archer)
7. “After all you are the centre and head of their set. Your husband has not only
run away from you but also from them. It’s not too good for them either. The fact is
that Albert Forrester has made you all look a lot damned fools.”
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“All,” said Clifford Boyleston. “We’re all in the same boat.
He’s quite right, Mrs. Forrester, The Philatelist must come back.”
“Et tu, Brute.” (from
The Creative Impulse
by W.S.Maugham)
8. No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
(from
The Ideal Husband
by O. Wilde)
9. There is a sort of “Oh-what-a-wicked-world-this-is-and-how-Iwish-I-could-
do-something-to-make-it-better-and-nobler” expression about Montmorency that has
been known to bring the tears into the eyes of pious ladies and gentlemen.
(from
Three Men in a Boat
by J.K. Jerome)
10. But in his countenance I saw a change: that looked desperate and brooding -
that reminded me of some wronged and fettered wild beast or bird, dangerous to
approach in his sullen woe. The cagcd eagle, whose gold-ringed eyes cruelty has
extinguished, might look as looked that sightless Samson.
(from
Jane Eyre
by Ch.Brontc)
11. There are details which even the most tender memory will mislay. The
shutter-softened houses with their high foreheads. (ibid.)
12. He had a heavy reddish face and a powerful spread of a nose. His hair was
only slightly grey. He held his head well and the bottle by the hand. (ibid.)
13. As the steel to the magnet I sped forward. (ibid.)
14. But my voice was caught up in the velvet of the night like a knife-thrust
caught in a cloak. (ibid.)
15. The silence was over me like a great bell, but the whole place throbbed with
a soundless vibration which it took me a moment to recognize as the beating of my
own heart. (ibid.)
16. The contents of the room had a sort of strange cohesion and homogeneity,
and they seemed to adhere to the walls like the contents of a half-empty jam jar. Yet
here was every kind of thing. It was like a vast toy shop that had been hit by a bomb.
(ibid.)
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17. Lord Faudel, a most intelligent middle-aged mediocrity.
(from
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by O.Wilde)
18. Certain things indeed I have learnt here: for instance, that my happiness has
a sad face, so sad that for years I took it for my unhappiness and drove it away.
(ibid.)
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