Couplet

mic back up” The structure in the first quatrain are three full bars and one bar, with many pauses. In this quatrain the wordplay technique is used in a very amazing way. In the first couplet Eminem rhymes the simple rhymes such as “slump”, “hump” and “dump”. In the second part, Eminem starts rhyme from the first couplet, but he changes the pattern and goes into composing three word rhyme. “ right back up” is rhymed with “ psyched back up” and “mic back up”. The rhyme scheme for this quatrain is…

antithesis therefore displaying love as the overwhelming emotion. The “zookeeper” adds a controlling nature to love, entrapment but also a caring and protective characteristic. The most prominent structural feature is the fact that it is written in couplets to show constant comparisons and contradictions as well as relations. A unique device that is repeatedly utilised is anaphoric phrases, they illustrate the connection between the actions but the obscure differences within the emotions as they…

John Keat’s sonnet “When I have fear that I may cease to be” deliberates human mortality and the simultaneous importance and meaninglessness of elements in the speaker’s life. Additionally, it expresses reasons for his apprehension towards the future. The speaker in this poem exhibits many similarities to Keats himself, namely an impending premature death, accordingly, it can be asserted that Keats is the speaker himself. For most of the poem, the speaker merely contemplates his own morality to…

telling of the men sinking down to one knee then to the earth. The poem tells of the blood from the men encompassing the ground creating a “slippery flood” on the ground making men fall on bodies where they “sleep”. However Schiller relates back to a couplet at the end of each stanza, “Brothers, God…

Both Spenser’s Sonnet 75 and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 60 shine with poetic immortality. However, as Sonnet 75 playfully flirts with the eternal life, Sonnet 60 approaches more cautiously: waiting to immortalize until the final couplet. Through form, both poems distinguish themselves as unique immortal poems. Sonnet 60 is commanding, while Spenser’s Sonnet 60 is more conversational, but why? Well, in Sonnet 60 both the second and third quatrains begin in syntactical inversion; thus emphasizing the…

image of love.“The Good-Morrow” introduces an all-encompassing spiritual love that surpasses all others. Each stanza is comprised of seven lines, consisting of two alternating couplets--moving from physical and temporal ideas into more spiritual ones--followed by a triplet resolving these ideas more interpretively. The couplets introduce an idea and develops it into the triplet where the speaker reflects on these ideas and offers his…

asking this majestic, beast which resembles a tiger, many different questions about it. To start off, this poem is using four quatrains which contains two rhyming couplets in each. It also contains seven syllables in each line besides for this phase “Could frame thy fearful, symmetry” which contains eight syllables in it. Here the rhyming couplets are used as a sense of repetition, which reinforce the idea of this strong, majestic beast. As we proceed to the first quatrains. Blake starts the…

organization of the sonnet and the meaning behind Shakespeare’s thoughts of death and his proximity to it will be discussed as we dissect Sonnet 71. The Shakespearean poem, Sonnet 71, has the common format of three variants of a central idea and then a couplet to finish the sonnet. The three variants,…

“This book is not about heroes...Nor is it about deeds, or lands, or anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War” (“Preface” W. Owen). Wilfred Owen wrote this in May of 1918 as a draft for the preface of a book of poetry he was hoping to publish. Owen never got a chance to rewrite this draft or publish a book of his poems. He died six months later on November 4, 1918, while leading his troops across the Sambre Canal. Owen’s poetry stands as a testament to the…

There are many allusions presented to us explicitely and implicitely in this poem. The poets apparent loss of memory throughout the poem implicitely alludes to the speakers decomposing body.In the first line,the speaker refers to himself as “me” but by the second quatrain he refers to himself as merely “the hand that writ” this poem.The speakers memory is reduced further in the third quatrain to “this verse” and by line ten resolves to “when I am perhaps compounded in clay”.The state of the…