Couplet

beauty (Shakespeare). The credit, for same, however, seems to lie not with the beloved but with the poet himself. For the beloved’s beauty will live on only through the poem, which will also have eternal life. This fact is expressed in the ending couplet: “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. In light of the last two lines, this poem is a tribute not only to the beloved, but to the poet as well. The beloved may have inspired the poet, but…

power that is well able to bring optimism and hope to one in solitude and disgrace. The first couplet captures Shakespeare’s feelings, “When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes, / I all alone beweep my outcast state”, (1174). The first two quatrains are lamentations, to some extent. He is wishing he was more wealth or socially superior, and he is even jealous of another man’s opportunity. The final couplet is a complete contrast in tone. The character is more optimistic and drawn out of his…

There will be a time in everyone’s life in which they feel surrounded by confusion and tragedy. Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream” is a widely known lyrical poem surrounding the thoughts of a speaker whose seemingly dashed hopes and dreams have led him to question the very meaning and purpose of life. Through the emotionally-charged words spoken by the speaker, the powerful imagery and subtle symbolism, the use of apostrophe, and the juxtaposition created between the two parallel stanzas…

The traditional way of evaluating beauty could hinder a person from perceiving the essential value of love. The theme is shown in the couplet at the end of the sonnet."And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare/As any she belied with false compare"(ln. 13-14). That couplet demonstrates that his love for her is beyond her physical imperfections he describes in the lines above. In a way, Shakespeare is mocking society 's definition of beauty. Her eyes…

to this rhyme scheme allows Keats to fully illustrate the elements of his fear. While lines 1-8 discuss the poet’s regret for works uncompleted, lines 9-12 reflect his dread that death will separate him from his beloved. Furthermore, the rhyming couplet allows Keats to provide a concise and firm response to his fear, a quality notably absent from Longfellow’s poem. “I stand alone, and think / Till love and fame to nothingness do sink,” writes the poet (Keats 13-14). By allowing his fears,…

dealing with judgement. It talks about how peaceful her life would be if she ran away from her problems. She begins to think of ways to avoid the people who despise her. The girl in the poem is tired of being judged. In the third quatrain and the couplet she becomes depressed which leads to…

"wall") ("correspondences" and "what he is—") and ("desire" and "fear"). These near rhymes solidify that the poet is struggling to control himself and the poem, however he regains his composure in the strongly rhyming last couplet of each stanza. Achieving these rhymes in the last couplets reestablishes the poem and the reader as it takes both away from the formlessness. Roethke is consistent with his idea that to endure the times of darkness is to unveil or arrive to a new kind of wholeness to…

This refers to the use of two successive lines that rhyme. The poem is made up of rhyming couplets. Through the entire poem, Bradstreet is crying out to her God not to leave her helpless after her house is engulfed by fire. The rhyming couplets are as a result of tension between Bradstreet 's attachment to earthly things and her awareness that she is supposed to focus only on God and break up her ties to the world…

to be considered a shakespearean sonnet it must contain “, three quatrains and a couplet following) this rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg. The couplet plays a pivotal role, usually arriving in the form of a conclusion.” according to the Academy of American poets. The poem “Dim Lady” is structured very differently from shakespearean sonnet, being 10 lines and contains no quatrains, it is also missing the needed couplet and does not have a rhyme scheme. Although it lacks these needed structural…

The poet’s choice to utilize couplets throughout his dramatic monologue is clearly ironic as the Duke represents a strong narcissism, as well as a blatant embodiment of the objectification of women that Browning suggests makes him unpaired, and unmatchable. Browning’s choice to use these contrasting couplets, then, calls into question the logic of the speaker himself. If there is irony in the physical nature of the poem…