poetry quotes

Question 1

a child

Answer 1

‘frail’ ‘fail’
-> rhyme pairs
‘i love my own old dad’
-> personal pronouns/monosyllabic
‘and gossips and good men and everybody’
-> poly sunset on
‘you love a story dad?’
-> rq
‘you do not hear me dad’
‘head’
-> half rhyme, monosyllabic

Question 2

one flesh

Answer 2

‘lying apart now, each in a separate bed’
-> caesura
‘he with a book… she like a girl’
-> simele /personal pronouns
‘bed’ ‘childhood’
-> half rhyme
‘chastity faces them a destination for which their whole life was preparation’
-> enjambment/active/ personification
‘whose fire from which I can has now grown cold?’
-> monosyllabic/ rq
ABABCC> ABABAB

Question 3

valentine

Answer 3

‘i give you an onion’
-> ss/ metaphor
‘like the carful undressing of love’
-> simele
‘lethal’
-> single word
‘take it’
->imperative
‘cling to your fingers cling to your knife’
->rep/ neg

Question 4

a complaint

Answer 4

‘there is change and i am poor’
-> cyclical
‘a fountain at my fond hearts door’
-> metaphors
‘what happy moments did i count!’
-> !
‘what have I?
-> ?
‘dry’ ‘obscurity’
-> half rhyme
‘well of love’
-> metaphor
ABABCC

Question 5

i wanna be yours

Answer 5

‘let me be your’
-> anaphora
‘if you like your coffee hot let me be your coffee pot’
-> metaphor
‘i wanna be yours’
-> rep
‘i don’t care’
-> monosyllabic
‘deep as the deep atlantic ocean’
-> simele
‘deep deep de deep deep’
-> rep
‘raincoat for those frequent rainy days’
-> pathetic fallacy

Question 6

nettles

Answer 6

‘my son’
-> cyclical/ possessive pronoun
‘that regiment of spite behind the shed’
-> metaphor
‘it was no place for rest’
-> monosyllabic / ss
‘and then i took my billhook honed the blade and went outside and slashed in fury’
-> polysyndeton/ enjambment
‘the busy sun and rain had called up tall recruits’
-> personification
ABAB

Question 7

sonnet 43

Answer 7

‘how do i love thee? let me count the ways!’
-> imperative ?!
‘i love thee to the depth and breadth and height’
-> enjambment / polysyndeton
‘i love thee purely as men turn from praise’
-> simele / anaphora
‘in my old griefs and with my childhoods faith’
-> neg lang/ contrast
‘i loev thee with the breath smiles tears of all my life!’
-> power of 3 hyperbole
IAMBIC OENTAMETER

Question 8

neutral tones

Answer 8

‘we stood by a pond that winters day’
-> pathetic fallacy (icy stagnant)
‘and the sun was white and few leaves lay’
-> anaphora / personification
‘bitterness swept thereby like an ominous bird’
-> simile / enjambment
‘and a pond edged with greyish leaves’
-> cyclical
ABBA - simple monosyllabic tone

Question 9

La belle

Answer 9

‘and no birds sing’
-> negative/ cyclical
‘her hair was long, her foot was light and her eyes were wild’
-> rule of 3 / positive
‘i set her on my pacing steed’ ‘she found me’
-> active vs passive
‘ah! wow betide!’
-> ss exclamation