5 poems structure

Question 1

Eden rock: What effect does the enjambment cause?
3

Answer 1

1.conversational tone=sense of calm for the speaker
2.details spill across the lines and down convey image before him.detail
3.enjambement echo the parents’ actions parents call him across the stream=Slow pace

Question 2

Eden rock: What is the rhyme scheme is it slanted or full and what is the effect?4

Answer 2

1.half rhyme scheme, ABAB pattern
2.Slant rhymes.=natural+parents real or not
3.rhymes don’t conform usual expectations unreliable—what is real, what is not.

Question 3

Follower: What effect does enjambment have? 2

Answer 3

1.Enjambment= rhythm, build momentum.
2.quickly transition from one line to the next

Question 4

Follower: What is the Form? 2

Answer 4

1.ballad form not rhyme of traditional ballads.
2.adaptation traditional poetic form mirrors speaker’s own take farming traditions his forefathers.

Question 5

Follower: What is the Rhyme scheme (slant rhyme) and it’s effect? 2

Answer 5

1.ABAB rhymes slant rhymes=similar, but not identical, sounds. Falling short fathers exceptions
2.rhyme scheme not predictable suggest father’s skill in navigating the fields he plows. nimbly between various rhyme patterns.

Question 6

walking away: What is the irregular meter (free verse) and it’s effect with enjambment? 1

Answer 6

1.irregular meter, frequent enjambment= conversational and intimacy

Question 7

walking away: What does enjambment do and it’s effect and what is line 5 example?
3
line 5

Answer 7

1.reader suspended end line wondering how speaker’s thought will conclude
2.line 5, boy went drifting away.= wait to see where the son goes drifting off to=uncertainty mirrors speaker’s uncertainty

Question 8

walking away: What is the rhyme scheme what does it join to do and it’s effect?
2

Answer 8

1.ABACA=highly regular rhyme scheme+poem’s uneven meter=balance between intimacy, control
2.Repeating A rhyme sounds three times each stanza=Memory continues affect him.

Question 9

neutral tones: What are the common meters and the effect? 3

Answer 9

1.tetrameters, trimeter
2.inconsistency poem’s meter=difficulty end of a relationship.
3.two competing meters, painful duality two people break up,

Question 10

neutral tones: How does enjambment used create effect what are lined examples? 2
line 5,7 9

Answer 10

1.sequential replay of the memory
2.lines 5, 7, and 9=feel unresolved incomplete. no potential glimpse of optimism

Question 11

neutral tones: How is caesurae create effect? 2

Answer 11

1.anxious sense broken rhythm, matching despondent tone
2.slows poem down=piecing memory back together

Question 12

neutral tones:
What is the 1 uses of form and what effect?

Answer 12

-cyclical structure= reputedly hurt by love since

Question 13

neutral tones: What is the Rhyme scheme and it’s effect?
2

Answer 13

1-regular ABBA pattern= sense “neutrality” masks depth emotional pain.
2-ABBA= Petrarchan sonnet closely associated love poetry, deception love, ironic bitterness

Question 14

winter swans: What are the stresses used for and what are the irregular pattern used for?
2

Answer 14

1-stresses flow gracefully=movements of the swans:
2-unpredictable stresses=pattern irregular= relationship

Question 15

winter swans: What is enjambment used for what effect?
2
line 9

Answer 15

1-flowing sound and couple unison
2-line 9=enjambment suspends sentence=swans’ movements

Question 16

winter swans: What effect does caesura do? 2
line 11

Answer 16

1-caesura divides line two distinct units=division of love
2-line 11.=majestic movements swans tip themselves into the water. balances line, conveying swans balance

Question 17

winter swans: What effect does no Rhyme scheme have?
2

Answer 17

1-no rhyme scheme= discordant state couple in.
2-rhymes= union between words=lack of rhymes unity has been left out of the poem.