Christina Rosseti Flashcards

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Structure of Some Ladies Dressed in Muslin Full and White?

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

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Structure of Remember?

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

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Structure of The World?

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Petrarchan Sonnet, ABBAABBA, CDCEDE

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Structure of Echo?

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Sextilla, ABABCC

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Structure of May?

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

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Structure of A Birthday?

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a Lyric Poem, ABCB rhyme scheme

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Structure of An Apple Gathering

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

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Structure of Maude Clare

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A Ballad, in quatrains, ABCB rhyme scheme

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Structure of At Home

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Lyric Poem, octaves, ABCBDEFE rhyme scheme

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Structure of Up-Hill

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ABAB rhyme chime, a dialogue, quatrains.

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Structure of Goblin Market?

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

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Structure of What Would I GIve?

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

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Structure of Twice?

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Octaves, Romantic poem, irregular rhyme scheme

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Structure of Memory?

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

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Structure of A Christmas Carol?

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ABCBDEFE, octaves, lyric poem

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Structure of Passing and Glassing?

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Octaves, AABBBCCA

17
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Structure of piteous my rhyme is?

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

18
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Structure of A Helpmeet for Him?

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ABAB BAB ABAB, roundel (refrain)

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Structure of As Froth on the Face of the Deep?

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One octave, iambic tetrameter, ABACABCB

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Structure of Babylon the Great?

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Italian sonnet, iambic pentameter, ABBAABBACDDCECE

21
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Structure of Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful?

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Petrarchan sonnet, iambic pentameter, ABBAABBA CDEEDC

22
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Maude Clare quotes:

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

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  • Subtle serpents
  • by day she wooes me
  • clawed and clutching
24
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Up-Hill Quotes:

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

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  • 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
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May Quotes:

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