Iambic tetrameter

The first two lines, both are in iambic dimeter, then she continues with the third line in iambic trimeter, the fourth in iambic tetrameter, the fifth back into iambic trimeter, and repeats the same pattern in the second stanza. The repetition of sound correlates to the poem since it is following a repetitive course that’s going “From Blank to Blank”(1)…

nothingness do sink” that he stands under the starry night reflecting his fear of not accomplishing his “fame” and not experience love before he dies. The theme of this poem involves the pureness of love and mortality. Despite Keats continuous meter use of iambic pentameter and trochaic pentameter, Emily Dickinson does not follow the same rhythm in her…

Human nature is to believe all individuals are unique, which is why “The Road Not Taken” is so commonly associated with praise for individuality. Robert Frost explores the process of decision making that is often faced throughout one’s life, comparing the choice to lead or follow the crowd to two paths. Although "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is commonly understood as an optimistic look on individuality, a careful examination of the symbolism, meter, and imagery reveals it is really an in…

ANALYSES OF THE LOVELIEST TREES AND TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG BY HOUSMAN Alfred Edward Housman was an English poet and one of the greatest classical scholars of all time. In this essay, I will analyse two poems “The Loveliest Trees” and “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman from modern era in England. These poems call as modern poems. First of all, I want to mention about modernism, characteristics of modernism and characteristics of modern English poetry. Modernism is a literary movement…

To understand William Blake’s statement ‘Without Contraries is no progression’ one might look at the origin of it, which can be found on the third plate in ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’ and continues with a list of examples: “Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence. From these contraries spring what religious call Good & Evil. Good is the passive that obeys Reason. Evil is the active springing from Energy. Good is Heaven, Evil is Hell”…

mean to persuade the woman to have sex with him. The flea expresses their connection once it has bitten the both of them. The speaker uses the flea to manipulate the woman to his advantage. Donne uses iambic tetrameter (four iambic feet per line) in lines 1, 3, 5, 7 and iambic pentameter (five iambic feet per line) in lines in lines 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 with a rhyme scheme of aabbccddd. The couplets of aabbccddd helps the reader keep track of the speaker’s argument throughout the poem. It also helps…

metaphors, and the contradiction Frost makes in the last stanza, he is able to portray the difficulty in making decisions and the outcome of those choices. The meter of the poem would be considered to be iambic tetrameter, yet lines like “two roads diverged in a yellow wood” would be anapestic tetrameter, instead of a line like “in leaves no step had trodden black”. This occasional break in meter could be related to the protagonist’s indecisiveness of choosing a path to travel on. He focused…

During the romantic era, There were poets like William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who used their lives as inspiration.William Wordsworth is considered the father of modern romantic literature. While Shelley paid a tribute to William Wordsworth, however it was more of a look where you are now. Both poets used themes, symbols, and characterization to get their thoughts across. “To Wordsworth” was written by Shelly and “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by Wordsworth. To begin, there are…

every aspect of human life is obliterated at death. Like many of Dickinson’s poems, this poem uses an ABCB rhyme scheme, yet the poem has a particularly regular meter, with the first and third lines in each stanza in iambic tetrameter, while the second and fourth lines are iambic trimeter. This routine regular meter could be interpreted as a reflection of the calm nature of the speakers despite their situation, suggesting that ultimately death is routine. In this poem, as in some of her…

strangles his lover with her own hair. The tone of this tale becomes even more worrying when you take into account the strict, stable meter that underlines the poem creates a weird tension between the murderous act and the way it is presented. The iambic tetrameter that scores the entire prose, breaks form at certain lines throughout the poem, the first break in the form occurs at line five which reveals an insightful message of Browning’s work. At the first reading of the line, ignoring the…