By Elimu Assistant Team 
Timeless Love and the Limitations of Mortality Poem
Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love’s day. Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow; A hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest.
Oral Skills Revision Questions
(i) Explain how rhythm has been achieved in the poem. (3 marks)
(ii) Assume you are performing this poem to an audience, in which ways would you enliven your presentation? (4 marks)
(iii) How would you say the following lines in the poem? (3 marks)
“Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze
Two hundred to adore each breast.”
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