2.
a. three sestets with the last broken into a quatrain and a couplet
b. aabbcc, aaddee, aaffgg
c. Because of the quick, happy flow of the poem, I'd identify the meter as anapestic tetrameter, though there are certainly many variations and a good number of iambic feet.
d. no
e. auditory, gustatory, olfactory, visual for sure. perhaps kinesthetic ("we gave her . . .").
f. a city with an all-night ferry (New York City?)
g. Two people are enjoying an all-night adventure, riding the ferry back and forth.
h. I imagine the speaker as a young woman with her lover.
i. bare, bright; smelled, stable; like, looked, leaned, lay; table, -top.
j. lyric
3.
a. ethos
b. logos
c. pathos
d. enthymeme. Leaders who are ambitious must die. Caesar was ambitious. Therefore, we killed him. False premise.
e. parallelism and antithesis
f. parallelism and climax; anaphora in sentence 5
g. anaphora, parallelism, rhetorical questions
h. 7, 9, 11
i. "There" is an expletive; sentence 6 is the only simple sentence in the passage.
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