Couplet

Although the precariousness of the speaker’s prison in sonnet 133 is confirmed in the couplet as he cannot prevent his mistress from using ‘rigour in [his] jail’ against his friend, the couplet repeats the model of the prison : ‘And yet thou wilt, for I, being pent in thee/ Perforce I am thine, and all that is in me’. The poetic persona predicts here that his mistress will take his friend…

itself is structured as an English sonnet in iambic pentameter and follows the rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg. The sonnet is broken into three quatrains and a couplet. The meaning of English sonnets can often be interpreted based on dividing the quatrain. Each quatrain serves an individual part to the sonnet’s overarching purpose. The couplet at the end of the sonnet then will conclusively describe the purpose of the sonnet as a whole. The first quatrain of “Sonnet 2” describes the inherent…

Agaha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without a Post Office stems from the 1990s Kashmir uprising against India, which led to violence and political turmoil in the region for a long time, and closed its post offices for seven months. Ali creates a loose narrative harmonizing with the central themes through repeating images and phrases, and constantly revisiting the flora and fauna of Kashmir. Divided into five sections, each with a small number of poems followed by a few notes, the poems present a…

and the rhyming system. The sonnet Death, be not proud contains the elements taken from both the Italian and the Shakespearian sonnet forms. From the Shakespearian sonnet the author has taken the structure, which is three quatrains and the final couplet that contains the conclusion of the…

right side of the wei wu, it looks like a red camera. On the right hand top corner with the black mark and sky blue it saids FXXX. Under the word FXXX it has a couplet with purple and green color. The black mark traditional words are gan mo qu gui qu zheng yi. It means get rid of the devil, exorcism and take justice. On the bottom of the couplet, there has a red with orange crab. Not only the left side have the pink slip, but also this side have the pink slip with black ink four Chinese words.…

along with the meter, add to the bounce and joy. Every stanza in this poem is a quatrain containing two couplets. The first couplet captures the woman’s remembrance of how the maid use to be, and the second couplet describes how the maid is now. These two couplets per stanza…

Shakespearean sonnet, which ironically is a more common form for the writing of love poems and “if we must die” is nothing of the sort. The speaker says “if we must die, O let us nobly die” (McKay 5). Using an iambic pentameter, imagery and ending it with a couplet is a way to emphasize the theme of honor and pride that he wants to portray to the reader. The speaker is a sort of leader, calling out to others to overcome the “common foe” and live and die with meaning and bravery, encouraging the…

Ghalib was the great poet of urdu literature on one hand and Shakepeare was the famous dramatist and great poet of English literature and there were many similarities found between Ghalib and Shakespeare. Ghalib lost his loved, Dilli, sponsorship and all that he valued. These events failed to bend his unconquerable spirit and helped form his spiritual vision and his -, his unconquerable Ghazals reflect that spiritual vision. Shakespeare undergone similar experiences but he chose a broadly…

First of all, Personification and Imagery are mixed together to compare existing and non-existing parts of the earth. Secondly, the rhyming couplet gave an intriguing link between these two forces. Thirdly, symbolism plays a role in identifying one’s emotions as it relates to our existence. An understanding of this poem opens one’s mind about how closely related we are to nature. Anything that…

The rhyme scheme of the sonnet “Bluebeard” is English with ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, and it divides to three quatrains and one couplet. The sonnet is inspired from the fairy tale with the same title “Bluebeard”. The main character Bluebeard is a wealthy man with his reluctant young wife. When her wife opened the room that Bluebeard forbid her from entering, she saw the dead bodies of his previous wives. When Bluebeard discovered, he attempted to kill his wife. Fortunately, her brothers entered and…