Poetry Structure Flashcards
What is the structure of the Extract from The Prelude by William Wordsworth?
Iambic pentameter= to give the poem a consistent pace
As the poem progresses the journey the poet is on becomes rougher and words like “and” is repeated to give it a breathless pace and feel
What is the structure like of London?
Written in four stanzas with a regular alternate scheme-could reflect the walking pace of the narrator as he walks around London
The last line in each stanza is powerful and sums up the stanza
Stanza 1: misery
Stanza 2: people’s refusal to stand tall
Stanza 3: the way people r sacrificed for the rich
Stanza 4: how all the poverty is affecting the quality of life and happiness
What is the structure of the poem exposure by Wilfred Owen?
The poem uses a large amount of ellipses,caesuras and repetition to create an on going sense of waiting and boredom.
Poem is made of 8 stanzas with a consistent use of a half line at the end this reinforces the sense of statis or sameness throughout the poem that nothing is happening.
Owen also uses lots of onomatopoeia and alliteration to emphasise the atmosphere and the sound of weather
What is the structure of storm on the island by seamus heaney?
The verses don’t rhyme which gives it a conversational tone and the enjambment adds to this conversational tone
What is the structure like for the poem the emigrée by carol rumens?
The idea of sunlight is repeated throughout the poem
Stanza 1: the opening of the poem seems to encompass the speaker trying to capture the memory
Stanza 2: builds on the details of this, fleshing out the city in her mind
Stanza 3: the poem seems to veer towards an idea of facing up to the modern dark place her city of memory has become
No specific structure- uncertainty about what will happen next
What is the structure of tissue by imtiaz dharker like?
The poem is written as an on-going monologue with some internal rhyme through the poem Stanza
Uses enjambment to create a very human and calm tone
The poem starts looking at the joy of simple things and wonders what the world would be like if it shared similar qualities and then at the end it’s ignored
Regular structure - each stanza has a quatrain
What is the structure like for the poem kamikaze by Beatrice garland?
The consistent structure uses quite regular syllable patterns drifting up and down in length that gives the poem a tone of nostalgia but also the rhythm of the waves which can represent a helplessness that things will happen whatever u do he’ll still die either way
The use of calm rural language juxtaposes the setting of war giving the poem a much more personal scope on a major event .
