Eden rock

Question 1

Structure

Answer 1

Written in a half alternate rhyme, divided into 4 octates, 1 tercet and 1 stanza (one line). The number of stanzas are slowly decreasing, which is effective at making the content of the final stanza important and significant. It also represents the diminishing life of the speaker.

Question 2

How is memory portrayed

Answer 2

Used childhood memories to create a vivid scene

Question 3

What techniques are used

Answer 3

Enjambment

Creates a natural gentle rhythm

Question 4

What’s the defect of the final line

Answer 4

It’s separated from the rest of the poem to emphasise the speaker’s current separation from his parents

Question 5

“The sky whitens..

Answer 5

as if lit by three suns.”

Question 6

“Has spread the stiff..

Answer 6

white cloth over the grass.”