Christina Rosseti

Question 1

Structure of Some Ladies Dressed in Muslin Full and White?

Answer 1

Petrarchan Sonnet, (ABBAABBA for first 8 lines then ABCCAB)

Question 2

Structure of Remember?

Answer 2

Petrarchan Sonnet, ABBAABBA rhyme scheme for the Octave, CDDECE for sestet

Question 3

Structure of The World?

Answer 3

Petrarchan Sonnet, ABBAABBA, CDCEDE

Question 4

Structure of Echo?

Answer 4

Sextilla, ABABCC

Question 5

Structure of May?

Answer 5

Truncated Sonnet (less than 14 lines), AABBCCDD (some are consonant rhymes)

Question 6

Structure of A Birthday?

Answer 6

a Lyric Poem, ABCB rhyme scheme

Question 7

Structure of An Apple Gathering

Answer 7

Quatrains, ABAB, iambic pentameter for first three lines, then iambic tetrameter.

Question 8

Structure of Maude Clare

Answer 8

A Ballad, in quatrains, ABCB rhyme scheme

Question 9

Structure of At Home

Answer 9

Lyric Poem, octaves, ABCBDEFE rhyme scheme

Question 10

Structure of Up-Hill

Answer 10

ABAB rhyme chime, a dialogue, quatrains.

Question 11

Structure of Goblin Market?

Answer 11

An epic poem with a ballad like structure. ROUGHLY an ABAB rhyme scheme

Question 12

Structure of What Would I GIve?

Answer 12

Tercets, first person narrative, AAB with an internal rhyme on the third line

Question 13

Structure of Twice?

Answer 13

Octaves, Romantic poem, irregular rhyme scheme

Question 14

Structure of Memory?

Answer 14

Quatrains, two sections, first section ABAB second section ABBA, sonnet.

Question 15

Structure of A Christmas Carol?

Answer 15

ABCBDEFE, octaves, lyric poem

Question 16

Structure of Passing and Glassing?

Answer 16

Octaves, AABBBCCA

Question 17

Structure of piteous my rhyme is?

Answer 17

ABBBC ADDDC EBBBC EDDDC, a complex meter and two 10 line stanzas

Question 18

Structure of A Helpmeet for Him?

Answer 18

ABAB BAB ABAB, roundel (refrain)

Question 19

Structure of As Froth on the Face of the Deep?

Answer 19

One octave, iambic tetrameter, ABACABCB

Question 20

Structure of Babylon the Great?

Answer 20

Italian sonnet, iambic pentameter, ABBAABBACDDCECE

Question 21

Structure of Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful?

Answer 21

Petrarchan sonnet, iambic pentameter, ABBAABBA CDEEDC

Question 22

Maude Clare quotes:

Answer 22

• Village maid vs Queen
• faded leaves vs the lilies are budding now
• I’ll love him till he loves me best

Question 23

The World Quotes:

Answer 23

• Subtle serpents
• by day she wooes me
• clawed and clutching

Question 24

Up-Hill Quotes:

Answer 24

• you cannot miss that inn
• those who have gone before
  -yea, beds for all to come

Question 25

Twice Quotes:

Answer 25

• O my love, O my love vs O my God, O my God
• I took my heart in my hand vs I take my heart in my hand
• Let me live or die vs I shall not die, but live

Question 26

May Quotes:

Answer 26

-it passed away with sunny May,
-and left me old and cold and grey.
- as yet the poppies were not born
-bright and breezy