Poems - Lit Flashcards
Form of “If”:
Father’s advice to son
Regular rhyme pattern - self-control
Form of “Prayer before birth”:
Free verse
- randomness/chaos of life
Prayer format “O hear me”
Form of “Blessing”:
Free verse
- spontaneous event
- different people’s actions
Form of “Search for my tongue”:
Free verse
- fluid movement from one language to another
Mid section - Gujerati
- Visual representation of how different languages are
Form of “Half-past Two”:
Free verse
- lack of strict form - child able to break free
Form of “Piano”:
Lyric poem
- expresses emotions
Regular rhythm - 3 quatrains
- calm & ordered
Rhyming couplets
Form of “Hide and Seek”:
Continuous single stanza
- suggests speed of transition between childhood nativity & bitter adult knowledge
Form of “Sonnet 116”:
Shakesperian sonnet form
3 quatrains
Regular patterns - sense and control
Form of “La Belle Dame sans Merci”:
ballad - written 18th century
set medieval times
Quatrains - regular patterns
Circular structure - trapped by obsession with woman
Form of “Poem at 39”:
Free verse
- reflects nature of memory as it moves from past to present
Form of “war photographer”:
Regular shape - 6 line stanzas
- creates order from chaos of war
Form of “Tyger”:
Rhyming couples
Equal length lines - tetrameter
Form of “My Last Duchess”:
Dramatic monologue
Continuous single stanza
- doesn’t allow others to speak
Form of “Half-caste”:
Free verse
Performance poem
Form of “Do not go gentle”:
Villanelle - 19 lines
- 2 repeatign rhymes
