Echo

Question 1

What is ‘Echo’ about?

Answer 1

The speaker begs their departed lover to visit them in dreams, where they can see their lover’s face again and relive all their past happiness. But while dreaming about this person gives the speaker much-needed relief from the pain of loss, their insistence on living in dreams and memories causes them to feel like an “Echo.’

Question 2

What are the themes in ‘Echo’?

Answer 2

Love Loss Memory
Dreams as a respite from grief.

Question 3

What is the rhyme scheme of ‘Echo’ ?

Answer 3

ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII
Musical, memorable, like a tragic love song about parted lovers.

Question 4

What is the form of ‘Echo’ ?

Answer 4

18 lines — 3 rhymed sestets
Each sestet begin with long pentameter lines, followed by 2 shorter lines and a final longer line.

Question 5

What is the meter of ‘Echo’ ?

Answer 5

Mostly iambic pentameter
However swaps with trochees (stressed - unstressed)

Question 6

When was ‘Echo’ wrote and when was it published?

Answer 6

1854, GM + other poems (1862)