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What are some of the recurring themes in the first two poems in The Tower? Use specific examples from the text.
The students will most likely talk about the themes of death, age, immortality, ancestry, which are all in the foreground of the first section of the collection. The first line of the first poem will be an obvious one to cite.
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Identify the rhyme scheme and meter of "Sailing to Byzantium". Where does the rhyme scheme and/or meter "break" in the poem and what do you think those "breaks" signify?
The poem is written in iambic pentameter. Some examples of breaks in the meter are the last lines in stanzas I and III. Both mention notions of...
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