By Elimu Assistant Team 
LIES BEHIND BEAUTY
Read the poem and answer the questions that follow: (8 marks)
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were filled with your most high whoosh deserts?
Though yet heaven knows, it is but as tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh number all your graces,
The age to come would say ‘This poet lies’
Such heavenly touches never touched earth’s faces,
So should my papers, yellowed with their age,
Be scorned, like lazy less travelled old men of less truth than tongue
QUESTIONS
- i) Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem? (2 marks)
- ii) Apart from rhyme, how else has rhythm been achieved? (2 marks)
- iii) Identify four words with silent letters and underline the letters. (2 marks)
- iv) Which words would you stress in the first line and why? (2 marks)
MARKING SCHEME
- i) Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem. (2mks)
- ababcdcdef√1 – regular√1
- ii) Apart from rhyme, how else has rhythm been achieved? (2mks)
- Alliteration – like lazy less (the sound l has to be underlined)
- Onomatopoeia – whoosh
- Assonance – it is (the sound l has to be underlined)
- iii) Identify four words with silent letters and underline the letters (2mks)
- Tomb, knows, half, write
- iv) Which words would you stress in the first line and why? (2mks)
- Believe, verse, time, come – content words (must identify all of them to score full marks)
