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What combination of elements helps portray the pleasures of winter in these lines from the poem?



Now yellow waxen lights

Shall wait on honey love

AThe word choice, sound, and imagery emphasize gentleness.
BThe “waxen lights” contrast with the sweetness of “honey love.”
CThe references to golden colors echo the comforts of winter.
DThe rhythm creates a sense of languor characteristic of winter.


Now Winter Night's Enlarge

by Thomas Campion