Identify the genre to which the following passage belongs:
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the Rocks,
Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow Rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing Madrigals.

Satire

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Allegory

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Pastoral

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Comedy

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Solution

The correct option is C Pastoral
"...we will all the pleasures prove,
That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields." - these lines from the given poem idealize the countryside and so the poem qualifies as pastoral. The given poem is definitely not satiric or allegoric (a poem with an implied moral lesson) and it also does not belong to the genre of comedy. So, the answer is option C.

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