*** LIBERTINE - One who acts without moral restraint; a dissolute person ***Pastoral – idealized rural life ***Chiasmus – ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country ***Alliteration – repetition of a speech sound in a series of words ***Couplet ***End rhyme ***Heroic couplet ***Spensarian sonnet? ***Octameter *** detumescent - Reduction or lessening of a swelling, especially the restoration of a swollen organ or part to normal size ***MOCK-HEROIC ***Anaphora 13 With …showed first 75 words of 760 total…

…showed last 75 words of 760 total…accept the idea that he cannot have what he wants and despises anyone whoever holds it from him. Blames Cloris Beginning of poem forms a sharp contrast with the end. Important that this story is coming from a narrator. Germ of Pride. Pride leads to Lysander’s warrior analogy? Satire against pride – comparing the sexually potent man to a god (Priapus). Fabulous and feign emphasize the irony, what should be powerful and lively is not.