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    its intimacy with the sun. How autumn ripens fruits and causes the flowers to bloom. In the second stanza, the speaker describes the hard work in the field, how the crops and fruits are ready to be harvested. In the third stanza, the speaker describes the sound and the music of autumn. The speaker tells Autumn not to wonder where the songs of spring have gone, but Autumn has its own song. First stanza it is clear the speaker is writing about autumn. He first briefly describes the season,…

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    Range Finding is composed of two stanzas, in which consist of unequal lines. (The first stanza consists of 8 lines, while the second stanza has 6.) This consists of 14 line breaks, individually standing alone and telling a story, yet there is no need to pause as if you were reading an end-stopped sentence. Each line Frost has written is a beautiful enjambment of its own. The overall shape of this poem is perceived from more of a conveying meaning rather than a verbal significance. *This poem can…

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    “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas is a villanelle poem that consists of five stanzas with three lines and the last stanza with four lines. The first and third lines are alternating repeated in other stanza of this work. In this poem, the poet makes use of some descriptive language to show certain emotions and how it builds up the poet’s state of mind. This poem portrays the idea of fighting against odds and resisting the death which gives an insight into the mind of a…

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    lines, four quatrain stanzas and, it rhythms in ABAB, with near rhymes on B.…

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    woman has more than just physical beauty, but also in the way she thinks, acts, and carriers herself. In the third stanza lines four, five and six say “But tell of days in goodness spent, a mind at peach with all below, a heart whose love is innocent!” these words let me know that along the beauty he is speaking of, she is good and kindhearted as…

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    is, the cause of the problems in the relationship in the song, and this is all told from the perspective of a woman. This essay will analyze this song and how the man in the song led to the end of his and the woman’s relationship. Within the first stanza, there are already signs that it is the man’s fault that the relationship ended, as is evident by the first line, “Don’t cry to me, if you loved me” (Evanescence, 2006). By saying this, the speaker is saying that she is done giving the man in…

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    Additionally, the poem consists of three line stanzas symbolizing the Holy Trinity which thereby convey the intense faith of dedicated followers of a religion. The ideas of faith and religion embedded in Hirsch’s admiration of sleepwalkers -- as seen in the author’s use of specific diction and form of…

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    field of grain and a gradient sunset. The same lines above and lines 9-10 , “We passed the School, where Children strove/ At Recess— in the Ring—,” supports the theme of the poem by the use of symbolism. Together, the four lines form one stanza in the poem. The stanza symbolizes the cycle of life. The words “School,” “Recess,” and “Ring,” give the appearance of grade school, which symbolizes the beginning of life with innocence. And the words “Fields of Gazing Grain,” and “Setting Sun,”…

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    An Explication of “Death” by Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson’s poem “Death” is structured in quatrains, four line stanzas. It is in Iambic meter, so each foot has one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The first and third lines of each quatrain have eight syllables, and the second and fourth have six. This means the first and third lines of each stanza consist of four feet, so those lines are in Iambic tetrameter. The second and fourth lines have three feet each, making them…

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    of high value. Line 3, “not all the vats upon the Rhine”, alludes to a main river that runs through Germany. Dickinson probably elected this image because Germany is known for its production of alcohol (“Overview”). In the conclusion of the first stanza, the speaker declares that the vats on the Rhine will not “yield such an alcohol” compared to the one she tastes. In lines 5 and 6, “inebriate of air am I, and debauchee of dew”, the speaker reveals what intoxicates her: air and dew. Inebriate…

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