Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil

Question 1

What style is Isabella written in?

Answer 1

• Ballad style
• Ottava rima - medieval-esque
• Iambic pentameter

Question 2

‘Poor simple…

Answer 2

…Isabel!’

Question 3

Some stir of heart, …

Answer 3

…some malady

Question 4

Dream, …

Answer 4

…and nightly weep.

Question 5

With every morn…

With every eve…

Answer 5

…their love grew tenderer

…deeper and tenderer still

Question 6

She spoilt her…

Answer 6

…half-done broidery with the same.

Question 7

With sick…

Answer 7

…longing all the night outwear

Question 8

A whole long month of May in…

Answer 8

…this sad plight.

Question 9

Made their cheeks…

Answer 9

…paler by the break of June.

Question 10

Isabella: ‘O may I never see another night, …

Answer 10

…Lorenzo, if thy lips breathe not love’s tune.’

Question 11

Honeyless days…

Answer 11

…and days did he let pass.

Question 12

Sweet Isabella’s untouched…

Answer 12

…cheek / Fell sick within the rose’s just domain.

Question 13

To cool her…

Answer 13

…infant’s pain.

Question 14

‘How ill…

Answer 14

…she is’

Question 15

His heart beat awfully…

Answer 15

…against his side.

Question 16

He inwardly did pray…

Answer 16

…For power to speak.

Question 17

The meekness…

Answer 17

…of a child.

Question 18

(50) Love and…

Answer 18

…misery.

Question 19

(53) ‘Very pale…

Answer 19

…and dead.’

Question 20

(56) ‘But in her tone and…

Answer 20

…look he read the rest.’

Question 21

(60-61) Lorenzo: ‘Believe how I love thee, …

Answer 21

…believe how near / My soul is to its doom.’

Question 22

Lorenzo: ‘I cannot live…

Answer 22

… / Another night, and not my passion shrive.’

Question 23

‘Great bliss was with them, …

Answer 23

… and great happiness / Grew, like a lusty flower.’

Question 24

‘Sang, of delicious…

Answer 24

…love and honeyed dart.’

Question 25

Quotes to show doomed love:
1. ‘With every morn their love grew tenderer, …
2. ‘Alas! When passion is…
3. ‘A dreary night of…
4. Lorenzo: ‘Believe how I…
5. ‘Grew, like a …
6. ‘The inward fragrance…
7. ‘Unknown of any, …
8. ‘Too many tears…

Answer 25

1. …with every eve deeper and tenderer still’
2. …both meek and wild’
3. …love and misery’
4. …love thee’
5. …lusty flower, in June’s caress’
6. …of each other’s heart’
7. …free from whispering tale’
8. …for lovers have been shed’

Question 26

Femininity and weakness/passiveness:
1. ‘Fair Isabel, …
2. ‘But her full shape…
3. ‘Sweet Isabella’s…
4. ‘Poor…
5. ‘Spreading her perfect…

Answer 26

1. …poor, simple Isabel’
2. …would all his seeing fill’
3. …untouched cheek’
4. …girl’
5. …arms upon the air’

Question 27

Tragic villainy/money:
1. ‘Torchéd mines…
2. ‘Money…
3. ‘Serpent’s…
4. ‘Why were…
5. ‘Each richer by his…
6. ‘Many once proud-quiver’d loins…
7. ‘Red-lin’d accounts…
8. ‘Many a jealous…
9. ‘Twas their plan to coax her by degrees…

Answer 27

1. …and noisy factories’
2. …bags’
3. …whine’
4. …they proud?’
5. …being a murderer’
6. …did melt in blood from stinging whip’
7. …were richer than the songs of Grecian years’
8. …conference had they’
9. …to some high noble and his olive-trees.’

Question 28

**Quotes to show the supernatural: **
1) ‘Strange sound it was, …
2) ‘And through it moaned…
3) ‘It’s eyes, though wild, …
4) ‘The Spirit…

Answer 28

1) …when the pale shadow spake’
2) …a ghostly under-song’
3) …were still all dewy bright’
4) …mourn’d ‘Adieu!’