Form Flashcards
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Q
What form is La Belle Dame in
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Ballad
Tells the story in a simple way so that it’s easy to remember. It has an ending rhyme of ABCB.
Iambic Tetrameter - four beats in a line, 8 syllables per line. It adds to the abrupt ending that we feel because of ‘no birds sing’. Last line of each stanza doesn’t follow the meter. Stanzas lack a conclusion, which could show that we only hear one point of view, which is from the knight.
Cyclical elements are almost inescapable and set, it could show that the knight’s date is also like so and that his fate was set since the start of the poem.
