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| Regular arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| by: Edward Lear (unsensical tone) |
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| "The Charge Of The Light Brigade" |
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| by: Alfred Lord Tennyson; dactylic dimeter;emphasis |
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| "The Destruction of Sennacherib" |
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| by: George Gordon (Lord Byron); THEME: God's plans never fail (II Kings: 18-19) Comparison of "wolf" and "snow" |
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| Who popularized limericks? |
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| Alfred Lord Tennyson; 1st stanza-our perspective; 2nd stanza-eagles perspective. |
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| Comparison of human to unhuman |
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| Comparison of 2 things of different sorts |
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| Repetition of sounds, also reversed rhyme |
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| Regular meter and rhyme- "The Eagle" |
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| Natural rhythm of speech; "Julius Caesar" by: William Shakespeare- unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| No regular rhyme or meter- "Splinter" by Carl Sandburg (farewell verse of summer or friends) |
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| A division of a poem based on thought, meter, or rhyme. |
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| Iambic pentameter - aa - complete though |
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| by: Alexander Pope- Pope: neoclassic poet, poet of his age, translated Homer Illiad |
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| Narrative quatrain that is a song - abcb |
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| by: Sir Walter Scott: Romantic Era -Scott: wrote Ivanhoe; Allen-A-Dale is from Robin Hood; THEME: One is noble by his deeds, not being "blue-blooded" |
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| author unknown - THEME: Woman's POV; CONFLICT: clan rivalry in Scotland |
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| Couplet, Triplet, Quatrain, Quintet, Sestet, Septet, Octave |
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Alyric poem of 14 lines;
Italian: 8 Lines (abbaabba); 6 lines (2-3 rhymes)
English: 3 quatrains, concluding couplet (ababcdcdefefgg) |
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| by: John Donne (Italian); uses paradox; Donne is metaphysical (Phil. 1:21, II Corin. 2:8): THEME: Hope we have in God about death; taken from this fleshly temptation; pride=death; death has no power |
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| "death shall die"; contradicts itself |
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| Nature of unseen human soul |
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| by: William Shakespeare -theaters closed and the plague happened during this "in disgrace with fortune." He sees himself as an outcast; insulted by Greene, positive ending- "sweet lore" |
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Only humorous poetry; anapestic trimeter, lines 1,2,5; lines 3,4
"The Limerick"
"The Tutor" |
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| Japanese, 3 lines; lines 1,3 (5 syll.) line 2 (4 syll.) serious tone |
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| Immediate appeal is visual |
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| by: Maxine Kumin; meter and free verse; swimmer going back and forth |
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| by: William Burford- star is important |
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| by: George Herbert- couplet- diameter- altar is important- THEME: God provides salvation through him |
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