Colour, sound and images from nature add to the beauty of a poem: 'Tartary' is a perfect example of the above. Pick out lines that contain-
• Colour
• Sound
• Images from nature

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Elements Lines from the poem
Colour i) "My bed should be of ivory"
ii) "Her rivers silver-pale!"
iii) "In every purple vale!"
iv) "Yellow as honey, red as wine"
v) "White, and gold, and green they’d be"
vi) "Of beaten gold my throne"
Sound i) "Trumpeters every day"
ii) "To every meal would summon me"
iii) "While harp, and flute, and mandoline"
iv) "Made music sweet and gay."
Images from nature i) "And in my court should peacocks flaunt"
ii) "And in my forests tigers haunt"
iii) And in my pools great fishes slant
iv)And ere should wane the morning-star,
v) "Her rivers silver-pale!"
vi) "Her flashing stars, her scented breeze"
vii) "Her trembling lake like foamless seas"
viii) "Her bird-delighting citron-trees"
ix) "In every purple vale!"

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Elements	Lines from the poem
Colour	i) "My bed should be of ivory" ii) "Her rivers silver-pale!" iii) "In every purple vale!" iv) "Yellow as honey, red as wine" v) "White, and gold, and green they’d be" vi) "Of beaten gold my throne"
Sound	i) "Trumpeters every day" ii) "To every meal would summon me" iii) "While harp, and flute, and mandoline" iv) "Made music sweet and gay."
Images from nature	i) "And in my court should peacocks flaunt" ii) "And in my forests tigers haunt" iii) And in my pools great fishes slant iv)And ere should wane the morning-star, v) "Her rivers silver-pale!" vi) "Her flashing stars, her scented breeze" vii) "Her trembling lake like foamless seas" viii) "Her bird-delighting citron-trees" ix) "In every purple vale!"

Colour, sound and images from nature add to the beauty of a poem: 'Tartary' is a perfect example of the above. Pick out lines that contain-• Colour• Sound• Images from nature

Colour, sound and images from nature add to the beauty of a poem: 'Tartary' is a perfect example of the above. Pick out lines that contain-
• Colour
• Sound
• Images from nature