Stanza

The first four stanzas are almost identical in the way they are formed. They all have six lines and have a certain sense of rhythm that comes along with it. The first four stanzas begin with a six word line, followed in a line break that consists of another four words. The next line begins with a dash and after the first word, there is a colon. “Ah…

first stanza and the other encompassing the las two stanzas, but the rhyme itself ends with the stanza. To connect the two stanzas that do not share a rhyme scheme, Clare uses enjambment. “I Am!” flows in event, with all of the stanzas existing together. “Disabled,” on the other hand, spans a period of time, with past, present, and future all out of order. The division in time requires the division of the stanza, but in order for the tone to continue across past, present, and future, the stanzas…

personification, diction and euphemism. Although, the overall tone of the poem is happy, the first stanza tone is sad. “I drink alone, no friends with me” (2), this suggest that the narrator is lonely and sad. “I raise my cup to invite the moon.” (3), in this line, the author used hyperbole; this tells that the narrator then feels optimistic but, at the same time desperate. In the last line of the first stanza,…

In the first stanza of the poem, “I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a colour slide,” there is a perception of who the speaker and the audience might be. The speaker of this poem is Collins or perhaps a teacher speaking to an audience (readers or students) that’s indicated by “them”. A simile in this stanza is used to compare a poem to a colour slide; the colour slide is just a picture. Both a poem and picture is considered art that is observed. The second stanza is one…

Throughout the poem “A Story,” Li-Young Lee uses carefully selected language and punctuation, as well as a variety of line and stanza structure, to provide insight into the way that a father views the complex relationship shared by him and his son. The poem opens up with a short, two-line stanza that conveys a solemn feeling through one impactful sentence. The very placement of the word “man” towards the center of the first line establishes a focal point, or emphasis, on this one character,…

Each stanza presents the events of the "epic" fall. The first stanza represents the destruction of Roman lands by stating the pummeled waves, lonely fields, and the abandoned transportation trains. In the second stanza we are talking about economic struggles the fall has brought; absconding tax defaulters, sewers of towns, and agents of pursue. In the third stanza we are talking about Caesar, a great Roman general during this yet again…

high," in the first and second stanza? A.E Houseman…

own death. The speaker utilizes sestet stanza units, specific meter with metrical variations, and repetition to enact the experience of longing. The poem divides into three stanzas, each six lines, with an ababcc rhyme scheme. Though a few of the lines in each stanza are enjambed, the sixth line of each stanza concludes with a period, giving each stanza the sense of being an individual unit. Each…

inspirational poems about life. The poem "What Life Should Be" argues what it means to be a human. She uses many different strategies to make the point across to the reader. In Fleming's poem, each stanza has an arrangement of different character traits that everyone should try and achieve. The first stanza says that we should learn all these different traits, while we are young and the fact that the world doesn’t revolve around us and there is more out there. It is better to grow up learning…

From the title we can infer that the poet is imagining something "If" it were changed to be a certain way. In each stanza of the poem, he compares the positive in life to the negative to come to the conclusion that if it were not for the negative, the point of life would be empty and everything would be ordinary. In Edward Estlin Cumming's poem, "If", he uses diction, shifts, and anaphora to create a peaceful tone. I chose this poem because I strongly agree with Cummings belief that without the…