Iamb

Close reading of “The Strange People” passage 1 The passage is a story of the speaker experiencing the results of a toxic relationship, in the form of a hunting metaphor. She is the ‘doe’ being hunted by the man, and as she is attracted to him by the ‘jacklight’, she slowly realizes that this is not a healthy relationship, but that she is the hunters ‘prey’. The passage selected shows telltale signs of an abusive relationship: the alliteration “safely shut” emphasizes how the speaker does not…

“Othello” A Literary Analysis Little is known of Shakespeare’s life. According to the short biography written in The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (Meyer, 2014, pp. 1145-1154), Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon on or about April 23rd, 1564. His father was an important person in the town. He held several town offices and married a woman from a prominent family. However, when Shakespeare was a teenager the financial situation of the family became problematic. There are no…

Foreshadowing the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come. Example Act 1, scene 4, lines 106-113 Iambic meter unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Iambic pentameter five verse feet with each foot an iamb (a total of ten syllables). Metaphor comparison between two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them. Example Act 1, scene 5, line 44: Simile a comparison made…

pointing out the importance of the mask. He does this again in the rhythm of the poem. The meter is a very popular structure of poetry, designated by pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables called iambs. “We Wear the Mask” is written in iambic tetrameter, meaning that there are four sets of iambs that compose each line: “we WEAR the MASK that GRINS and LIES.” Again, this structure is broken only by the two lines stating “we wear the mask.” These structural idiosyncrasies point out not only…

Anthology 1 – Immigrant Blues In this poem, Lee is trying to explain the struggles of immigrating to a new country. He also underlines the importance of silence by letting us pause and contemplate many times throughout it. Along with that, he doesn’t force his views upon us, instead, it’s like his inviting you to converse with him. ‘Immigrant Blues’ talks about and explores an array of identities. The author does this by coming up with a number of titles for the story, all trying to define the…

strong intentions to write “Incident” in ballad form, an extremely old form of poetry. Ballad form consists of meter, rhyme, and stanzas. Ballad meter alternates lines of iambic tetrameter (a line consisting of four iambs) with lines of iambic trimeter (a line consisting of three iambs). “Once riding in old Baltimore / Heart-filled, head-filled with glee” (Cullen 1-2). Rhyme structure is substituted between the second and fourth lines. “From May until December… That’s all that I remember”…

This is most famously shown by Alexander Pope, whose An Essay on Criticism was controversially in couplets. J. Paul Hunter has suggested that some found in Pope’s verse form ‘a confirmation of his wicked, narrow and manipulating ways.’ However, I feel that this is a narrow view and would that stress his use of form was fruitful. By adopting this high traditional style, Pope added an authoritative philosophical credibility to his work and lasting power to his argument considering his aim to…

anaphora on lines 5-7, in which he repeats “я помню” as a sort of refrain. This [ju] sound, placed before the details which Batiushkov recollects, makes for an almost hesitant description of the woman, especially as each one is the beginning of an iamb, with the first syllable of the element being recalled at the end, creating an effect of hesitation and then certainty, almost as if the poet were trying to convince himself of what he is describing. Indeed, in the poem, Batiushkov relies on his…

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…

The rhythm, or meters, used in Dickinson 's work is similar to the system of meters used in hymns called simple meters. A meter is a unit of the rhythmic and syllabic structure of a poem. Moreover, the most common of these meters is called iamb which is defined by a rhythmic pattern consisting of an unstressed syllable directly followed by a stressed syllable. This pattern is repeated throughout the line. More specifically, Dickinson 's work typically uses an iambic tetrameter or an iambic…