Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil Flashcards
What style is Isabella written in?
- Ballad style
- Ottava rima - medieval-esque
- Iambic pentameter
‘Poor simple…
…Isabel!’
Some stir of heart, …
…some malady
Dream, …
…and nightly weep.
With every morn…
With every eve…
…their love grew tenderer
…deeper and tenderer still
She spoilt her…
…half-done broidery with the same.
With sick…
…longing all the night outwear
A whole long month of May in…
…this sad plight.
Made their cheeks…
…paler by the break of June.
Isabella: ‘O may I never see another night, …
…Lorenzo, if thy lips breathe not love’s tune.’
Honeyless days…
…and days did he let pass.
Sweet Isabella’s untouched…
…cheek / Fell sick within the rose’s just domain.
To cool her…
…infant’s pain.
‘How ill…
…she is’
His heart beat awfully…
…against his side.
He inwardly did pray…
…For power to speak.
The meekness…
…of a child.
(50) Love and…
…misery.
(53) ‘Very pale…
…and dead.’
(56) ‘But in her tone and…
…look he read the rest.’
(60-61) Lorenzo: ‘Believe how I love thee, …
…believe how near / My soul is to its doom.’
Lorenzo: ‘I cannot live…
… / Another night, and not my passion shrive.’
‘Great bliss was with them, …
… and great happiness / Grew, like a lusty flower.’
‘Sang, of delicious…
…love and honeyed dart.’
Quotes to show doomed love:
1. ‘With every morn their love grew tenderer, …
2. ‘Alas! When passion is…
3. ‘A dreary night of…
4. Lorenzo: ‘Believe how I…
5. ‘Grew, like a …
6. ‘The inward fragrance…
7. ‘Unknown of any, …
8. ‘Too many tears…
- …with every eve deeper and tenderer still’
- …both meek and wild’
- …love and misery’
- …love thee’
- …lusty flower, in June’s caress’
- …of each other’s heart’
- …free from whispering tale’
- …for lovers have been shed’
Femininity and weakness/passiveness:
1. ‘Fair Isabel, …
2. ‘But her full shape…
3. ‘Sweet Isabella’s…
4. ‘Poor…
5. ‘Spreading her perfect…
- …poor, simple Isabel’
- …would all his seeing fill’
- …untouched cheek’
- …girl’
- …arms upon the air’
Tragic villainy/money:
1. ‘Torchéd mines…
2. ‘Money…
3. ‘Serpent’s…
4. ‘Why were…
5. ‘Each richer by his…
6. ‘Many once proud-quiver’d loins…
7. ‘Red-lin’d accounts…
8. ‘Many a jealous…
9. ‘Twas their plan to coax her by degrees…
- …and noisy factories’
- …bags’
- …whine’
- …they proud?’
- …being a murderer’
- …did melt in blood from stinging whip’
- …were richer than the songs of Grecian years’
- …conference had they’
- …to some high noble and his olive-trees.’
**Quotes to show the supernatural: **
1) ‘Strange sound it was, …
2) ‘And through it moaned…
3) ‘It’s eyes, though wild, …
4) ‘The Spirit…
1) …when the pale shadow spake’
2) …a ghostly under-song’
3) …were still all dewy bright’
4) …mourn’d ‘Adieu!’
