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Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.
Her lip suckle the nipples
Milk bubbles, foams and ripples
Little hands up in the air
Catch on the mother’s hair
Sweet sensation rises in pressure
Tiny legs kick with pleasure
Sleep comes gently and strong
Sleep whispers softly and long.
(Emusara Ossie Enekase

i. Identify any two pairs of rhyming words in the poem.

ii. Identify one major sound pattern in the poem.

iii. Give two examples of the above sound pattern.

iv. How would you perform the last two lines of the poem?

Answer Text:
i. -Nipples/ripples
- Air/hair
- Pressure/pleasure
- Strong/long
ii. Alliteration
iii. In the fifth line the words sweet and sensation, sound/s/
In the last line, the words sleep and softly sound /s/
iv. I would dramatize by lowering my tone. I would also say it in a slow pace, to create the onset of the approaching sleep.