Read the lines from the poem “porphyria’s lover” and identify the rhyme scheme and meter. when glided in porphyria; straight she shut the cold out and the storm, and kneeled and made the cheerless grate blaze up, and all the cottage warm; which done, she rose, and from her form

Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning

Meter: it is mostly iambic tetrameter because in most of the poem there are 4 iambs per line.

Rhyme: it is asymmetrical because each unit is not made up of the same rhymic unit. It has an unbalanced scheme that follows the pattern of ABABB.

the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

explanation:

a) madame podtochina used witchcraft to make it disappear.