Question
This verse form is exemplified by Barnabe Barnes’s line “What shall I do to my Nymph when I go to behold her? / Hold her!” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this 16th and 17th-century English verse form in which the last syllables of a line repeat. This form shares its name with a nymph loved by Narcissus.
ANSWER: echo verse
[10h] This poet used echo verse in “Heaven,” a poem beginning “O Who will show me those delights on high? Echo: I (“eye”).” This poet concluded his poem “Love (III)” with the lines “So I did sit and eat,” after Love enjoins him to “taste my meat.”
ANSWER: George Herbert
[10m] This poet used a form of echo verse in “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo.” Another poem by him opens “I caught this morning morning’s minion, king-/ dom of daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon.”
ANSWER: Gerard Manley Hopkins (The other poem is “The Windhover.”)
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