Poetic Form

Question 1

What is poetic form?

Answer 1

The physical structure of a poem

Question 2

Write down three examples of poetic form

Answer 2

Sonnet
Dramatic monologue
Blank verse

Question 3

What is a dramatic monologue?

Answer 3

A poem which presents a single single speaker as though they are speaking directly to an imagined audience.

Question 4

What is the effect of dramatic monologue in my last duchess?

Answer 4

To comment on the way marriage was conducted in the period and to show the powerlessness of women.

Question 5

An example of a dramatic monologue

Answer 5

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

Question 6

What is a blank verse poem

Answer 6

A poem consisting mainly of unrhymed iambic pentameter.

Question 7

Examples of poems which use blank verse

Answer 7

Ozymandias
Extract from the prelude
My last duchess
Storm on the island

Question 8

What is iambic pentameter?

Answer 8

A line of poetry with ten syllables in it, with pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Resembles a heartbeat.

Question 9

What is a sonnet ?

Answer 9

Sonnets have fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter.
They have two parts, with a different rhyme scheme in each, and a change in tone or meaning called a volta.

Question 10

An example of a sonnet

Answer 10

Ozymandias- the volta is the words “nothing beside remains”