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Type of Work.......The "Song From Pippa Passes" is a short lyricpoem sung by a character in a verse play by Robert Browning. This play, or dramatic poem, is entitledPippa Passes.Its story centers on a fourteen-year-old girl, Pippa, who works in a silk mill. On her only day off in the year, she wanders through the town of Asolo singing happy songs that change for the better the lives of those who hear them.Publication..............Edward Moxon of London publishedPippa Passes(the dramatic poem in which "The Song From Pippa Passes" appears) in 1841 in pamphletform.Text of the PoemThe year’s at the spring,And day’s at the morn;Morning’s at seven;The hill-side’s dew-pearl’d;The lark’s on the wing;The snail’s on the thorn;God’s in His heaven—All’s right with the world.Theme.......Pippa's little song says that everything is as itshould be in the world of man and nature and that everything is full of promise. Moreover, God is watching over His creation. Therefore, the song says in presenting the theme, all is right with the world. |
Structure.......The eight-line poem has a neat little structure. First, all the lines contain five syllables. Second, the subject of each clause is a noun that unites with the verbisto form a contraction (year's,day's,Morning's, etc.). Third, a prepositional phrase ends each line except the fourth. Fourth, the first three lines center on time; the second three, on nature; and the last two, on God and His dominion. The balanced rhyme scheme is abcd, abcd. All the rhymes are masculine, consisting of a single syllable at the end of one line rhyming with a single syllable at the end of another line. (In feminine rhyme, two syllables rhyme, as in insingingandringing,flowerandpower, and razzle and dazzle.)Language.......The language of the poem is simple and easyto understand. There are no wasted words, and the meaning is clear |
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W.H. Davies expresses an omniscient happiness in his poem “The Villain”.The way he depicts certain characters works to personify the animals. The spread of the day’s happiness when “joy [gives] clouds the light” allows theclouds to “[beam] where’er they [look]”(1,2). The sun among the clouds moves its brightness over the land to create good times. This excites the young animals and gives the birds joy to sing about (3,4,5). |
Unaffected by the other events transpiring around them, these beasts watch only the dawn of a new day. During the festivities, the fate of the corn appearsgrim as “the wind” drags “the corn intoa dark and lonely wood” (7,8,10). This action does not affect anyone and the sun continues to shine without dimming.😇😇😇The rhyme scheme of “The Villain” points to the ideas on display. As the birds sing a “song,” the corn disappears making it a “wrong” “song”or one not fit for the occasion (4,5). The song allows the jubilation to continue uninterrupted. The observer “stood” watching the “wood” (8,10). The person does not move to aid the corn, but does stay to watch the victim, with her “golden hair,” disappearing into a “dark…wood” (9,10). The contrast in colors points tothe forest as a place that the corn does not belong. The sun’s light dwindles in darkness and the wood’s darkness triumphs in light.Joy only goes where people let it; any can find sorrow. |
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