Iambic tetrameter

Robert Frost is made up of four stanzas of five lines each, and has iambic rhythm. By using symbolism, literary elements, and rhyme scheme, Frost is able to make readers think about choosing between diverging paths in a wood, and he sees that choice as a metaphor for choosing between different directions in life. “The Road Not Taken” has four stanzas of five lines. The rhyme scheme is ABAAB, which means it is an iambic tetrameter because there are four stressed syllables per line. The rhymes…

The most important perhaps was the use of iambic tetrameter - and the breaking of it. However Simpson (2010) claims that ‘the distinction between strong and weak syllables is relative and not absolute’ (p17), which is true in terms of all interpretation in that it is relative to whom is reading the text…

narrator can hear a fly buzzing, this good imagery, by using onomatopoeia, but otherwise, not full of impact. It is only when she follows through with the rest of the line that we get hit with “when I died”. By staying true to the form of the iambic tetrameter, she creates a huge leap from bland to exciting all in one line. This juxtaposition from one extreme to the other drives home a feeling of intrigue, the reader wants to continue this poem, find out about the death of the narrator, and what…

Wanderlust This poem primarily features a steady iambic tetrameter. It also possess several rhyming elements, such as assonance in lines 6 (“leave the phone and hit the road”) and 8 (“the sea we call routine”). The poem also uses alliteration, as in lines 9 and 10 (“gladly go across the globe, To glimpse the glory”) and slant rhyme in lines 2 and 4 (air, here) and lines 9 and 10 (globe, behold). The poem uses the repetition of “let’s” to signify the sense of urgency the narrator has Shanghai…

Walt Whitman’s poem ‘A Glimpse’, reminds me of a romantic movie where two strangers lock eyes and suddenly, everything around them stops, in that moment the only people that exist, that matters in the whole world is each other, as if in that moment they’re falling for each other, like love at first sight. The poem starts with "A glimpse, through an interstice caught, of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-room, around the stove.", as if the speaker was speaking from the outside, observing…

Seizing the Day with the Elements of Poetry The Latin phrase “Carpe diem” means to “seize the day.” This motto is used as a common theme throughout literature and poetry. In Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” the theme of Carpe diem is coupled with a message that urges young women into relationships due to the destructive power of the passing of time. Herrick and Marvell are able to get the theme across by the manipulation of the…

In “Porphyria’s Lover” by Robert Browning, the narrator displays a bitter and passionate tone by the use of abbreviated words and long syntax. When Porphyria’s lover waits, he sits in a cold house listening to the storm. He tells us, “I listen’d with heart fit to break.”(5) The narrator waited expecting Porphyria not to come. He’s bitter towards her because he’s planning for her to stand him up. Her social status is above him and he believes that Porphyria’s desire for riches will keep her from…

the mid-1800s, as the speaker finds nothing but an eerie darkness at the end of her life. Dickinson allows readers to experience unconventional expectations of death throughout the first and second stanza of her poem through the utilization of an iambic meter and the symbol of a fly. Specifically, the speaker begins the piece by noticing a fly; “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” (1). Here, Dickinson begins the story of the speaker’s death with her noticing a fly to imply that the speaker could…

truly anticlimactic nature-- the grim truth of reality as represented by the mundane buzz of a fly. Within Dickinson’s first stanza, her familiar rhythmic structure of the poem immediately evokes a solemn, spiritual mood as its pattern of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter parallels the structure of a church hymn.…

In the poems, I Bright Star and Choose Something Like a Star, both deal with a star that they admire and trust. Moreover, the speakers of both poems have different reasons on why they want to be unchangeable. The style of both poems are significant because it hints to the reader, the speaker’s purpose of these poems. Their similarities and differences creates a central theme for both poems. In the poem, Choose Something Like a Star, Robert Frost has a desire to become unchangeable, so that he…