AO2 Flashcards
1
Q
AO2 for “The Human Abstract”
A
- Rhyming couplets (AABB)
- first stanzas are didactic
- Third stanza- narrative
2
Q
AO2 for “The Tyger”
A
- Iambic tetrameter “could frame…”
- Hammering beat
- regular, rhythmic meter
3
Q
AO2 for “A Poison Tree”
A
- quatrains
- rhyming couplets
- pedagogical tone
- 2 colons in first stanza
4
Q
AO2 for “Nurses’ Song”
A
-ABCB/DEFE (like the sick rose)
5
Q
AO2 for “The Little Black Boy”
A
- Heroic quatrains
- ABAB (usually affiliated with kids and pure innocence)
- Slightly longer lines suit pedagogical tone (like poison tree)
6
Q
AO2 for “London”
A
- 4 quatrains (reinforces the control/charterd..even in the poem itself)
- alternative lines rhyming
- repetition
7
Q
AO2 for “The Sick Rose”
A
- ABCB/DEFE
- Worm and storm are rhymed
- Joy and destroy are rhymed too
- Short, two beat lines
- Ominous rhythm
