JAMB Literature in English 2001 Question 32

Question 32

African Poetry

The rhyming pattern in the last stanza of Okigbo's 'Hurrah for Thunder' makes the stanza

  1. A.an octave
  2. B.a quatrain
  3. C.a couplet
  4. D.a sestet
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Answer: C (a couplet)

Explanation

The last stanza is two rhyming lines ('...hell' / '...bell'), which is a couplet.