When writing a literary work the author must consider several different themes, styles, structures, rhyming schemes, or subjects to expand upon. There can be an endless combination of all these elements to create very different kinds of works like poems, essays, or short stories that can become very famous and important. What makes a literary work great? Well, that lies within the structure of that work and there seems to be a certain pattern of structure for success. Alfred Lord Tennyson was a famous poet from the Victorian era who happened to compose The Lady Of Shalott. This literary work tells the story of a cursed woman who must view the world through a mirror, but one day she sees Sir. lancelot and turns around to see him at which point
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There is a typical rhyming scheme of A,B,A,B and then C,D,C,D so on and so forth. Well, there is a small connection between that pattern and the one that Alfred uses but no very much. He has chosen to use a very sophisticated rhyming scheme just to prove that he can do it. His scheme consist of three different sets of rhymes with in nine lines of poetry. So, yes he actually was able to make up his rhyming scheme of three different rhymes in every single stanza throughout the entire poem. His poem happens to be rhymed to the pattern of A,A,A,A and then in the last five lines he goes like this B,C,C,C,B. This is one stanza from The Lady Of Shalott, "On either side the river lie/ Long fields of barley and rye/ That clothe the wold and meet the sky/ And through the field the road runs by/ To many-towered Camelot/ And up and down the people go/ Gazing where the lilies blow/ Round an island there below/ The island of Shalott" (Alfred Tennyson. pg. 963 Lines 1-9) Take a look at how the first four lines rhyme with each other. Then the fifth line rhymes with the ninth line while the sixth through eighth line all rhyme with each other. Go ahead and try to doing something like this yourself it is nearly impossible to keep such a strict structure for a poem of such great magnitude. Well, just when one thought that Tennyson was all out of tricks and smart quirks for his …show more content…
By changing between iambic and trochaic meter he created a very personalized and emotional poem. Alfred also used a rhyming scheme he could call all his own which set this poem apart and gave it great detail in its structure. Lastly, Tennyson was able to break his poem into four equal parts of 35 lines with nine lines in each of the four stanzas per part. A very specific and highly intriguing structure creates one of the greatest literary works that came from Alfred Lord Tennyson. Structure is the most important part of creating a literary piece and can be the difference from greatness or just another pencil
There is a typical rhyming scheme of A,B,A,B and then C,D,C,D so on and so forth. Well, there is a small connection between that pattern and the one that Alfred uses but no very much. He has chosen to use a very sophisticated rhyming scheme just to prove that he can do it. His scheme consist of three different sets of rhymes with in nine lines of poetry. So, yes he actually was able to make up his rhyming scheme of three different rhymes in every single stanza throughout the entire poem. His poem happens to be rhymed to the pattern of A,A,A,A and then in the last five lines he goes like this B,C,C,C,B. This is one stanza from The Lady Of Shalott, "On either side the river lie/ Long fields of barley and rye/ That clothe the wold and meet the sky/ And through the field the road runs by/ To many-towered Camelot/ And up and down the people go/ Gazing where the lilies blow/ Round an island there below/ The island of Shalott" (Alfred Tennyson. pg. 963 Lines 1-9) Take a look at how the first four lines rhyme with each other. Then the fifth line rhymes with the ninth line while the sixth through eighth line all rhyme with each other. Go ahead and try to doing something like this yourself it is nearly impossible to keep such a strict structure for a poem of such great magnitude. Well, just when one thought that Tennyson was all out of tricks and smart quirks for his …show more content…
By changing between iambic and trochaic meter he created a very personalized and emotional poem. Alfred also used a rhyming scheme he could call all his own which set this poem apart and gave it great detail in its structure. Lastly, Tennyson was able to break his poem into four equal parts of 35 lines with nine lines in each of the four stanzas per part. A very specific and highly intriguing structure creates one of the greatest literary works that came from Alfred Lord Tennyson. Structure is the most important part of creating a literary piece and can be the difference from greatness or just another pencil