What is the effect of the couplets in "to my dear loving husband" and "to the king's most excellent majesty"?
they guide the poet in planning the poem.
they the poet create a simple rhyming pattern.
they the poet break the poem into simple parts.
they allow a poet to link lines of poetry together using sound.

Why does the host answer the guest with brief responses during the party?

In the poem, collins compares his love to a pigeon on a generals head

Highlight all instances of parallel structure. there is no longer any room for hope. if we wish to be free—if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending—if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained—we must fight!