“Great God, direct, and guard him from on high,
And from his head let ev’ry evil fly!”
How does the couplet form support the meaning of the lines?
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“If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were lov’d by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.
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What is the rhyme scheme in these line
“And may each clime with equal gladness see
A monarch’s smile can set his subjects free!”
Wheatley uses the word free in these lines to suggest that
“I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.”
These lines contain an example of
Female colonial Poetry. (2017, Dec 12). Retrieved from https://paperap.com/paper-on-female-colonial-poetry/