Larkin Poems Features Flashcards
What is the structure of Wires?
2 quatrains
What is the rhyme scheme of Wires?
pallindrome/envelope
what is the rhyme scheme of Next, Please?
- rhyming couplets
what is the rhyme scheme of Places, Loved Ones?
AB
what is the tone of Places, Loved Ones?
cynical and defensive, suggesting superiority over the reader. becomes semi-mournful towards the end.
what is the structure/rhyme scheme of Coming?
free verse
what is the rhythm/metre used in Coming?
falling rhythm
what is the rhyme scheme of Going?
it doesn’t have one
what is the structure of Going?
3 end-stopped tercets and 1 single line stanza
what is the structure of Born Yesterday?
free verse
what is the rhyme scheme of Born Yesterday?
half rhymes - ends on 2 full rhymes
what is the structure of Wants?
- 2 quintets
- structural parallelism
- repetition of first line of each stanza at end of each stanza
- anaphora
what is the metre of Wants?
sluggish iambic pentameter in the 2 refrains and heavy mid-line pauses (caesuras),
what is the rhyme scheme of Maiden Name?
ABBACCA
what is the rhyme scheme of Toads?
almost ABAB rhyme scheme
what is the rhyme scheme of Poetry of Departures?
ABCBADCD
what is the structure of Poetry of Departures?
4 octets
what is the metre of Poetry of Departures?
rough accentual meter
what is the metre of Church Going?
typical line is iambic pentameter
what is the rhyme scheme of Church Going?
ABABCADCD with many half-rhymes
what is the structure of Church Going?
seven, 9-line stanzas
what is the rhyme scheme of I Remember, I Remember?
ABCCBAABCD
what is the structure of I Remember, I Remember?
seven 5-line stanzas and one tail-line
what is the rhyme scheme of At Grass?
ABCABC
