Read the following stanza from John Masefield’s poem ‘Laugh and Be Merry’ and answer the questions given below.
Laugh and be merry: remember, better the world with a song, Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong. Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span. Laugh, and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man.
i) Give the number of beats (stressed syllables) in each line, and mark the stressed syllables.
ii) What is the pattern of rhyme in the stanza?
iii) Give examples of the use of alliteration in the stanza.
iv) Give examples of the use of assonance in the stanza.
Each line in the stanza has 10 beats, with 5 stressed syllables in each line. The stressed syllables can be marked as follows:
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