Couplet

"The Human Abstract" keeps to an AABB couplet rhyme conspire all through, conjuring the youth rhyming of Guiltlessness. The initial two stanzas are pedantic, offering straightforward lessons in the terrible bases of human ideals. The third stanza starts an account featuring "He" (a kind of Everyman), whose first demonstration is to take a seat and cry. The fourth stanza breaks the strict AABB rhyme design, with "shade" and "head" just scarcely rhyming while "Fly" and "Riddle" just rhyme if read…

and that one day he will too. Thomas also uses the rhyme scheme, in a more technical way, to represent death. The simple ABA rhyme throughout the poem doesn’t show much, but knowing that it finishes with a couplet signifies that the rhyme suddenly ends, hence the death. This final couplet morbidly shows that everything, including life,…

Throughout history, our values and perception change. Even the littlest event or invention could change how we do and think things. As these accomplishments and failures emerge, topics and their themes won’t change much, but our perception of it will. The old English poem, “The Wanderer”, and the Early Modern English poem, “Love (3)” by George Herbert, both share the theme of love and Christianity. However, since they are from two different literary periods, the way they are written and their…

love them for how the individual cares for us, but we do not love them for their harsh temper. “One Boy Told Me” at first glance is just a funny poem; however, first impressions are often deceiving. One couplet can cause readers to develop silent smiles while laughing to themselves, and the couplet directly after cause the brows furrow. The speaker has nothing to gain from the poem and no agenda to accomplish, everything he tells readers is simply the truth in his eyes. The boy gives us a…

Sonnet VI Michael Drayton’s sonnet number six describes a setting of the world where many women paint the streets. Drayton in line 1 explains that these women are “paltry, foolish, painted things” describing them as meager or of no importance where as they try to by foolishly painting themselves with make-up like children playing adults for a day. These women surround coaches on the streets soon to be forgotten due to the fact that no poet has ever written about them in a sense that gives a…

‘Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry’ by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a poem telling a story about the sexist expectations set for women in the 1900s. This was a time in which women’s roles were rapidly and immensely changing due to them performing traditionally male tasks and occupations as the men were fighting in the war. Consequently, women started to realise that they too could work, provide and be educated and so many gained feminist ideas and resentment for the patriarchy. A lot of them defied their…

this quatrain as he is obviously nearing the end of his time. The fire will be extinguished as it sinks into the ashes, thus so will the speaker. The couplet of ‘73’ sums up the journey through nature. It contains irony because the elements that are fading - late autumn, twilight, and a fire - has the power to bring about a greater love. The couplet also has an important message and a warning to it. He tells us that it is important that we love beyond all measures and make the most of our…

so-called Dark Lady as an alluring but degrading object of desire” (Shakespeare 1170). Sonnet 130 can be identified as a Shakespearean or English sonnet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg thus breaking the sonnet into three quatrains and one couplet. It is written in of iambic pentameter which consists of 5 stressed and 5 unstressed syllables. The sonnet is written in first person point of view and the persona or speaker is a man. Shakespeare takes a different approach in his sonnet of…

In Maya Angelou’s poem it’s a little complicated at first when you read through the stanzas you would think it was written in a heroic couplet sort of pattern but it switches up and seems very free verse but I guess that’s just Maya’s style of writing. There’s definitely personification and symbolism in the poem by Maya making her home Africa into a woman and using her different body parts…

careful use of enjambment. Written in the present tense, with a final couplet in the hypothetical future, Brooks’ poem does not have a concrete sense of past. The tone of “My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell,” is heavy. It’s written in off-rhyme style, intentionally simple that seems to serve as a cautionary tale about belittling the importance of dreams. The narrator in the Brooks poem, introduces…