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Poetry - Structure Flashcards

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Ozymandias

Percy Bryce Shelly

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • sonnet - 14 lines
  • iambic pentameter
  • The rhyme scheme disappears after the first 4 lines
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London

William Blake

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • 4 quatrains
  • ABAB rhyme scheme
  • repetition
  • cyclical structure - first and last paragraphs focus on those who are suffering
  • Iambic tetrameter
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Extract from, The Prelude

William Wordsworth

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • Epic Poem - legendary stories and events
  • Long poem - overwhelming
  • one stanza
  • blank verse
  • iambic pentameter
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My last duchess

Robert Browning

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • iambic pentameter
  • rhyming couplet
  • dramatic monologue
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charge of the light brigade

Alfred Lord Tennyson

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • Ballad - used to be sung - it is a story
  • contains a refrain - repeated lines (like a chorus)
  • uses dactylic dimeter- mirrors the galloping of horses
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exposure

Wilfred Owen

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • Each stanza starts with a powerful sentence, contains emotive language and ends with an anticlimax
  • ABBAC
  • pararhyme - a sense of being on edge, incompleteness, imperfection - denied the satisfaction of full rhyme
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Storm on the island

Seamus Heaney

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • 1 stanza
  • long sentences
  • enjambment
  • half rhyme on starting and ending couplets
  • dramatic monologue
  • iambic pentameter
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Bayonet charge

Ted Hughes

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • enjambment
  • free verse
  • 3 stanzas
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Remains

Simon Armitage

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • cyclical structure
  • begins mid-action
  • repetition
  • free verse
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Poppies

Jane Weir

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • dramatic monologue
  • free verse
  • different stanza length
  • caesura
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War photographer

Carol Ann Duffy

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • 4 sestets
  • ABBCDD
  • caesura
  • cyclical structure - starts with him coming back and ends with him leaving
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Tissue

Imtiaz Dharker

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • Enjambment
  • repetition
  • lists
  • free verse
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Emigree

Carol Rumens

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • free verse
  • caesura
  • The last stanza is one line longer
  • repetition of “they”
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Checking out my story

John Agard

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • AAAA rhyme scheme
  • enjambment
  • variety of stanza lengths
  • stanzas about black people are in italics and are in free verse
  • blank verse
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Kamikaze

Beatrice Garland

form? meter? rhyme?

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  • 7 sestets
  • free verse
  • enjambment
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