Study Questions on "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"


How does the sound support the sense?
  1. How many feet in the first and third lines of each stanza?
  2. How many feet in the second and fourth lines of each stanza?
  3. Find the feminine rhymes.
  4. Find the masculine rhymes.
  5. If you put this poem to music, what kind of music would it be? Would there be any saxophones? How about violins?