Absent from thee-structure Flashcards
1
Q
How are the stanzas arranged?
A
4 stanzas arranged into quatrains
2
Q
Effect of the arrangement of the stanzas
A
regularity makes it seem like a clean love poem but it’s subverted as instead it’s a witty man trying to persuade his lover to allow him to sleep around.
3
Q
What is the poem’s meter?
A
iambic tetrameter
but he plays with the meter including trochee’s
4
Q
Effect of the meter
A
manipulating the typical love poems
5
Q
What’s the rhyme scheme?
A
steady rhyme scheme ‘ABAB’
6
Q
Effect of the rhyme scheme
A
ties in with musical essence of the rest of poem
Traditional conventions but delivers an unconventional method
