Analysis of Holy Sonnets 7
The Holy Sonnets,7 by John Donne is a Petrarchan Sonnet, which is also an iambic pentameter. It’s end-rhyme scheme is abba abba cdcd ee, with variations in several lines. The poem consists of an octave and a sextet with a turn after line eight. After the basic information of this poem, I will illustrate several terms with examples found in it.
As for the rhyme, full rhymes appear frequently at the end of lines, such as ‘space’ and ‘grace’. These full rhymes give the poem a musical enjoyment. An exception of end rhymes is a sight rhyme which appears at the end of last two lines--‘good’ and ‘blood’. Although they are spelt alike, they have different pronunciations. However, there is a possibility that people from some places may pronounce them alike. A regular iambic pentameter line is line eleven. There are five feet of unstressed syllables followed by beats. A reversed iambic foot within a line appears at the beginning of line five and six. ‘All’ is stressed to emphasize that the category is so comprehensive that it contains nearly every kind of people. In the first line, ‘round earth 's’ can be seen as a …show more content…
‘Blow your trumpets’, ‘arise from death’, ‘your numberless infinities of souls’, ‘you whose eyes shall behold God’ and ‘for that’s as good as if thou’dst sealed my pardon’ are examples of emjambements. With these enjambements between the lines, the flow of the poem becomes more fluent. Besides, the example ‘you whose eyes shall behold God’ has a sense of tender, which shows the author’s love and respect for God. The last example gives reader a little time to think about what will happen later, which presents suspense. Examples of caesuras appear in line two, three, four, and nine, signified by commas and semicolons. These pauses not only let the reader to imagine the latter part of the line, but also reflect what he has read
The Holy Sonnets,7 by John Donne is a Petrarchan Sonnet, which is also an iambic pentameter. It’s end-rhyme scheme is abba abba cdcd ee, with variations in several lines. The poem consists of an octave and a sextet with a turn after line eight. After the basic information of this poem, I will illustrate several terms with examples found in it.
As for the rhyme, full rhymes appear frequently at the end of lines, such as ‘space’ and ‘grace’. These full rhymes give the poem a musical enjoyment. An exception of end rhymes is a sight rhyme which appears at the end of last two lines--‘good’ and ‘blood’. Although they are spelt alike, they have different pronunciations. However, there is a possibility that people from some places may pronounce them alike. A regular iambic pentameter line is line eleven. There are five feet of unstressed syllables followed by beats. A reversed iambic foot within a line appears at the beginning of line five and six. ‘All’ is stressed to emphasize that the category is so comprehensive that it contains nearly every kind of people. In the first line, ‘round earth 's’ can be seen as a …show more content…
‘Blow your trumpets’, ‘arise from death’, ‘your numberless infinities of souls’, ‘you whose eyes shall behold God’ and ‘for that’s as good as if thou’dst sealed my pardon’ are examples of emjambements. With these enjambements between the lines, the flow of the poem becomes more fluent. Besides, the example ‘you whose eyes shall behold God’ has a sense of tender, which shows the author’s love and respect for God. The last example gives reader a little time to think about what will happen later, which presents suspense. Examples of caesuras appear in line two, three, four, and nine, signified by commas and semicolons. These pauses not only let the reader to imagine the latter part of the line, but also reflect what he has read