Read the passage.
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,
In praise of ladies dead and lovely Knights,
Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best
of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
Which of the following best describes the syntax of these lines from Sonnet 106 by William Shakespeare?
It is made up of two quatrains.
It is made up of a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd
It is made up of pairs of rhyming couplets.

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. read the following excerpt from the novel "oliver twist" by charles dickens. although oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature. if he had been, perhaps he would have been prepared for this. not being prepared, however, it alarmed him the more; so away he went

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