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in Class 12 by kratos

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments

Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;

But you shall shine more bright in these contents

Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.

(a) The poet'* friend will outlive

(b) What will outshine the other ?

(c) The rhyme scheme of the stanza is ................

(d) The poet of the given lines is ..............

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by kratos
 
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(a) the gold-plated buildings of stone built in the memory of someone.

(b) The words of this powerful poem written in praise of his friend will outshine those monuments

(c) ab,ab

(d) William Shakespeare.

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