Literature 2005 JAMB Past Questions - Question 42: 'It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting'. W. Wordsworth: St is a Beauteous Evening The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is

'It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquility; The gentleness of heaven broods O'er the sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder-everlasting'. W. Wordsworth: St is a Beauteous Evening The rhyme scheme of the stanza above is