Rhyme scheme

Hughes wrote “The Weary Blues” in a free verse with an irregular rhyme scheme, mimicking the natural patterns of speech and music. The poet’s blues poetry was influenced by the music during his childhood. “The Blues” is a musical style invented and propagated by African Americans, which historians Dreams are the driving…

authors featured in The Mersey Sound. Described by Carol Ann Duffy as "the patron saint of poetry", he is arguably the most famous of the Liverpool poets. His unpretentious yet subtle poems characteristically address everyday concerns through supple rhyme and dextrous wordplay. 4.1. Biographical notes and main works4 Born on the outskirts of Liverpool in 1937, Roger McGough studied Geography and French at the University of Hull before returning to his home city of Liverpool where, in the early…

William Blake “The Tyger” is a poem written by William Blake and published with a collection of poems in a work titled “The Songs of Experience” in 1794. William Blake was born in London in 1757 to James Blake a hosier (Morsberger,). Blake expressed a desire at the age of 10 to study art, which his father allowed, paying for his tuition and for casts to study at home (Morsberger,). At the age of 14, Blake was apprenticed to an engraver, learning a trade that would be valuable to him in…

Parents’ love for their children is sometimes not acknowledge by the kids until they become adult. Children often become so wrapped up in their own tasks and obligations that they take for granted the simple acts of love and support given to them by their parents. Similarly, Robert Hayden’s "Those Winter Sundays" is a very touching poem regarding his relationship with his father. Robert Hayden was an African-American poet and professor who is best known as the author of poems, including “Those…

Understanding the poems of a four-time Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry is no easy task without extensive knowledge on the background of the poet’s life. As we see in all literature, understanding what a poet is truly trying to convey is often heightened by reflecting on the experiences that the poet has had. For Robert Frost, his life consisted of a multitude of unconventional events that each had a great influence on his poetry. From the tragedies of the deaths of his wife and three out of his…

It is very clear that this poem was carefully constructed, it was meant to be read meticulously. The author of the poem has spent hours working with the “precision of black and white and its close score and countercut that becomes what happens here, between these squat characters and a thinning fiction keen to aspire” (Groarke, 56, 22-26). Yet even with this meticulous care, the only way to escape the confines of the poem is “by way of leave”, or by flight. This is also, therefore…

Poet’s have different views on different sets of things. 3 poets in particular, express their different opinions on what nature’s role in providing for humanity is. Christopher Marlowe, the author of “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, has a different opinion from Walter Raleigh, the author of “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd”, and William Carlos Williams, the author of “Raleigh was Right”. Despite the differences, these 2 poets do have similar things in common with each other. Marlowe…

People who can write poems from the heart can affect others to their own heart. Some poems are easy to decipher by their meaning, and some are not as simple. I have now read many works of poetry from wonderful authors, but I have had only a few of them to actually stand out and grab my attention through either key words to remind me of thoughts in the past or imagery terms to give me a crystal clear picture. One poem managed to seriously get me focused because of these elements. This poem is…

Dame sans Merci” is written by John Keats in 1819, he is a romantic poet and was born in England in 1795. The poem is written in the form of a traditional ballad and is presented with eight beats per sentence for each twelve quatrains and a simple rhyme scheme of ABCB. The French title of the poem helps foreshadow the summary of the poem, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” means women without mercy when translated to English. The poet decided to use a French title as French is commonly seen as a…

We find John Donne’s religious sonnets dominating the 17th century and hundreds of sonnets written by Wordsworth in the romantic era that brought out an entirely different purpose. In the 20th century, poets like William Butler Yeats and Robert Frost regularly used sonnets to depict a precise perspective. Yeats’ Leda and the Swan is a popular sonnet that depicts the myth of Zeus and Leda. We find the poetic form of sonnets used across languages and times. In the late 19th century, the Limerick…