Learnt Comparison Poems - Quotes Flashcards
“I am poor”
A complaint
“white blisters beaded”
Nettles
“Like a girl dreaming of childhood”
One Flesh
“Not a red rose or a satin heart”
Valentine
“winters day”
Neutral Tones
“Passionate nights”
The manhunt
“Slashed in fury”
Nettles
“Chidden of God - God curst sun”
Neutral tones
“Moon wrapped in brown paper”
Valentine
“Murmuring sparkiling living love”
a complaint
“Only then”
The manhunt
“Like a confession”
One flesh
“pond, sun, leaves, ash”
Neutral Tones
“fractured, punctured”
The manhunt
“regiment of spite”
Nettles
“spears”
Nettles
“And flow it did”
A Complaint
“Alive enough … to die”
Neutral Tones
“Careful undressing of love”
Valentine
“preparation”
One flesh
“Parachute, rudder”
The manhunt
“The smile on your mouth … deadest thing”
Neutral Tones
“Silence between… they’re old”
One Flesh
“grazed heart”
The Manhunt
“A well of love”
A complaint
“Tender skin”
Nettles
“a wobbling photo of grief”
Valentine
“Years ago”
Neutral tones
“Time itself a feather”
One flesh
“Fierce kiss”
Valentine
“It may be deep-… never dry”
A complaint
“Busy sun and rain”
Nettles
“possessive and faithful”
Valentine
“whose fire…now grown cold”
One flesh
“foetus of metal’
The Manhunt
gray/grayish”
Neutral Tones
“platinum loops”
Valentine
“Lying apart now”
one flesh
“fond heart”
A complaint
“Would often feel sharp wounds again”
Nettles
“Unexploded mine”
Manhunt
“scent will cling to your fingers”
Valentine
“porcelain collarbone”
Manhunt
“chastity”
One Flesh
“explore, search,source”
Manhunt
“Pond”
Neutral Tones
“Cling to your knife”
Valentine
“Only then did i come close”
Manhunt
“Such change hath made me poor”
A complaint
“Its”
Valentine
“O what can ail thee”
La Belle
“They say you’re old and frail”
A child to his sick grandfather
“Let me be your…”
i wanna be yours
“And gossips come to ask for you..//
And everybody looks so sad”
A child to his sick grandfather (polysyndeton)
“I see a lily on thy brow”
La belle
“The squirrels granary is full//
And the harvest is done.”
La Belle
“On thy cheek a fading rose”
La Belle
Fast withering too” (let motif)
La belle
“Her hair was long, her foot was light//
Her eyes were wild”
La belle
“I set her on my pacing steed”
La belle
“elfin grot”
La Belle
“there i dreamed Ah! - woe betide! -
The latest dream i ever dreamt”
La belle
“I saw their starved lips in the gloam”
La Belle
“On the cold hill side”
La Belle
“Alone and palely loitering”
La Belle
“Through the sedge is withered from the lake”
La Belle
12 quatrain ballad with ABCB rhyme scheme (traditional in ballad)
La Belle
3 sestets ABABCC rhyme scheme
A complaint/ One Flesh
4 quatrains with ABBA rhyme scheme
Neutral Tones
Irregular structure and no rhyme scheme
Valentine
first two stanzas are octetes with ABABCCDE rhyme scheme until stanza 3’s irregular structure
i wanna be yours
One stanza (monologue) with ABABCDCD… rhyme scheme
Nettles
13 couplets most of which rhyme
The Manhunt
“You will to die and leave us then”
A child to his sick grandfather
“Ill lead you kindly by the hand”
A child to his sick grandfather
“Cunning greedy fox that stole
By the dead of midnight through a hole”
A child to his sick grandfather
“You love a story, Dad?”
A child to his sick grandfather
“Of men all clad in coats of mail,
With glittering swords - you nod, I think?”
A child to his sick grandfather
“Down your bosom sinks your head -
You do not hear me, Dad”
A child to his sick grandfather
“Let me be your ford cortina,
i will never rust”
i wanna be yours
“You call the shots” (antipode)
i wanna be yours
“let me be your rain coat,
for those frequent rainy days”
i wanna be yours
“let me be the electric heater,
you get cld without”
i wanna be yours
“with deep devotion
deep as the deep
atlantic ocean”
i wanna be yours
“i dont wanna be hers”
i wanna be yours
8 sestets with AABBCC rhyme scheme
A child to his sick grandfather
