1. Who is the author of the poem's epigraph?
2. To whom is the poem dedicated?
3. What colors are most prominent in the first 36 stanzas of the poem?
4. What is Adonis planning to do when he is accosted by Venus?
5. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?
6. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?
7. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?
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