Remember the sacrifices of the people who fought at Gettysburg.
The rhyme scheme is ABAB up until the last two lines, which are CC. Rhyme scheme signifies which lines rhyme with each other, depending on the last word in each line. The As correspond with each other, the Bs correspond with each other, and so on.
The main idea of the poem is that one should not to give up pursuing a woman if at first she doesn't seem interested, because when she has finally been won over, her love will last forever. In other words, be patient, because a woman who is not easily wooed will provide the longest form of love.
The poet uses the "metaphor" of burning an oak. A metaphor is a comparison between two seemingly unlike things (in this case a woman/her love and an oak tree) without using the words "like" or "as" (which would make the comparison a simile).
The poet uses the metaphor of a wound to represent how deep love can go ("Deep is the wound, that dints the parts entire With chaste affects, that naught but death can sever").
<span>C)innocence
I say this based off the fact that he laughs at everything it seems.
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"Yet the Lord so upheld these persons, as in this general calamity they were not at all infected either with sickness, or lameness."
"And I doubt not but their recompense is with the Lord."
The answer would be <span>“those two devised this plan”.</span>
