"Altogether" and "weather," at the ends of lines 5 and 6 respectively, comprise a "feminine rhyme." A feminine rhyme is a rhyme in which two or more syllables at the end of words are identical in sound. In this case, the last two syllables of both words match; phonetically, they both end in a short "e" sound and "-ther." Feminine rhymes also have the feature of being unstressed in their final syllable.

Passage adapted from Herman Melville's epic poem Clarel (1876).

A "slant rhyme" is a rhyme which is almost a true rhyme, but not quite. That is, the ending sounds of the words are close to matching, but are not precisely the same. Here, "word" and "disregard" have the same ending consonant sounds: "rd." Their vowel sounds do not match, however. The "o" in "word" and the "a" in "disregard" are similar sounds, but not identical, so this is a slant rhyme and not a true rhyme.

Passage adapted from Herman Melville's epic poem Clarel (1876).

Lines 1-3 (like most of the passage) is written in iambic tetrameter. It is "tetrameter," and not pentameter or hexameter, because each line contains four metrical feet. It is "iambic" (and not trochaic) because each metrical foot consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

Passage adapted from Herman Melville's epic poem Clarel (1876).

The poem makes frequent and consistent use of apostrophe. Apostrophe is a literary device in which the speaker addresses something or someone that cannot hear the speaker. Usually the speaker is addressing an inanimate object, an abstract idea, or an absent person. In this case, the speaker is addressing the "Rose," which is an inanimate object; it therefore qualifies as apostrophe when the speaker calls out to the Rose in lines 1-2 and elsewhere.

Passage adapted from "To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time" by William Butler Yeats (1893)

A "refrain" is a line (or several lines) that are repeated throughout a poem. The last and first line of this poem, being identical in each repetition, form a refrain.

Parallelism, on the other hand, refers not to the repetition of the same exact sentence within a poem, but rather the use of a similar syntactical structure imposed on sentences that have differing content. Parallelism is thus not limited to poetry, but is found very often in prose as well.

Passage adapted from "To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time" by William Butler Yeats (1893)

"Meter" describes the rhythmic structure of a poem or line of poetry based on the pattern and number of stressed and unstressed syllables. "Iambic" means an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. "Pentameter" means that syllabic pattern is repeated five times in a single line of poetry. Thus, "Iambic pentameter" is a line of poetry with ten total syllables alternating unstressed to stressed.

An alliteration is the repetition of letters or sounds at the beginning of two or more words, usually in a single line of poetry. "Cold command," "survive, stamped," "boundless and bare," and "lone and level" are all examples of alliteration. None of the other multiple choice answers are exemplified in this poem.

Yeats describes "Love" figuratively as having human qualities. In the final stanza, Love "paced," "hid," and "fled;" all metaphors used to illustrate the way it feels to fall out of love by giving the emotion human traits.

The speaker in the poem gives himself away in lines 7-8. We know that the speaker is directly addressing "You," somebody with whom he is personally familiar. He goes on to describe both the nature of his love for "you:" "the pilgrim soul," "the sorrows of your changing face," and his physical response to those emotions. The speaker would likely only know this if the "one man" character was himself, and an omniscient narrator would not address the first character "you" in the second person.

Quatrains are stanzas containing exactly four lines. Couplets are two-line stanzas, triplets three-line, and free verse describes any type of poem that doesn't adhere strictly to a rhythmic or formal structure.