Rhyme scheme

the meaning and the purpose of the sonnet itself. “Sonnet 2” can be analyzed in such a manner, and its meaning and structure are very closely intertwined. The sonnet itself is structured as an English sonnet in iambic pentameter and follows the rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg. The sonnet is broken into three quatrains and a couplet. The meaning of English sonnets can often be interpreted based on dividing the quatrain. Each quatrain serves an individual part to the sonnet’s overarching purpose.…

Shakespeare’s 17th century sonnets are loved by many, but perhaps also seen as a bit controversial for its time by some. This controversy is particularly prominent in Shakespeare’s 18th sonnet, also known as “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?”, which was published in the quarto SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS in the year of 1609. The controversy has had many wondering: Was Shakespeare gay? The reason for this controversy can be found in one of the sonnet’s themes. Shakespeare’s admiration of an…

A Soldiers Sacrifice in “They” and “Disabled” In Siegfried Sassoon’s “They” and Wilfred Owens “Disabled”, both poems describe the physical and emotional trauma that soldiers experienced in the trenches and on the battlefield. Those left on the home front did not understand the circumstances that the soldiers were under and were shocked when their boys came home suffering from “shell shock” and PTSD. “Social reactions to shell shock victims varied from sympathy or anger at the war to confusion…

In this poem, there is the rhyme scheme, figurative language, and Angelou’s style that contribute to the creation of the overall theme that is represented in the confidence in one’s self. Firstly, the poetic form the Angelou used to portray herself through the writing is crucial to the…

The first poem I wrote for this collection was Depression. Originally, it was very narrative so it took a while for me to decide whether to make the basic concept into a poem or story. Eventually I decided on writing a poem as I didn’t have much experience with writing poetry so I saw it as a personal challenge. I realised the original concept was not very cohesive, so I wrote a rough storyline to work through in order to make the piece more cohesive. An early difficulty I had was with…

The Humble Poets: Anne Bradstreet and William Cullen Bryant From the settling of America to its Civil War, literature changed rapidly and gave future readers an idea of the struggles throughout that time period. Poets, in particular, were excellent at capturing the emotional tone of the time and discovering new meanings around and within themselves. Anne Bradstreet—a Puritan poet that came to America with John Winthrop—and William Cullen Bryant—a Romantic poet writing in post-Revolutionary…

properly absorbed. The workshopped poem, “Heartbeat” was conceived by letting my mind wander and seeing how I would have to work the lines to maintain a rhyme to drive the poem without any set structure. In the end, I honestly liked it because just like a heartbeat and our understanding of the concept of ‘heart’ is awkward and confusing, the rhyme scheme mirrored the awkwardness…

My Papa 's Waltz, by Theodore Roethke is a lyrical poem told by the narrator looking back on his relationship with his father when he was a young boy. It is an iambic trimeter written with an ABAB rhyme scheme. There is a definite mixed tone in the poem and depending on perspective, it can be read as light and playful, or dark and violent. The boy obviously cares very deeply for his father, but there are undertones of a darker side filled with abuse, violence and alcoholism. The waltz could be…

When thinking of sonnets,the main themes that are considered are expressing love and unrequited love. Most sonnets compare the person of affection with nature, specifically flora and the sky. Shakespeare, however, chooses to honor his subjects with more abstract comparisons and goes as far as to mock the typical sonnet. Sonnets 18 and 130 are prime examples of Shakespeare’s perception of sonnets commonly written in his time. The mockery is expressed through the form of these sonnets using common…

line in the passage reads “o FORtune! FORtune!ALL men CALL thee FICKle” (Shakespeare, 3.5.60). Noticeably, there are only nine syllables in this line, five stressed and one unstressed syllable. The line is therefore missing a syllable, and the rhyme scheme that had been in perfect harmony only a line before is broken. The syllable is not the only component missing in this line, rather, as mentioned earlier, the conviction that Fortune is fixed is…