Power and Conflict form and features of poems

Question 1

What is the form and structure of London and what language does it use?

Answer 1

• It is a dramatic monologue and narrative (senses described).
• It uses uniform stanza length (four lines=quatrain)
• Iambic tetrameter that gets broken at points (8 syllables).
• Uses simple conversational language.

Question 2

What is the form and structure of Ozymandias?

Answer 2

• It is a sonnet (love poem, arrogance)
• It uses iambic pentameter (Shakespearean and Petrarchan feature)
• One stanza in length (no break from the arrogance)

Question 3

What are the features, form and structure of Kamikaze?

Answer 3

• Sestet (six lines) consistent (orderly)
• Constant distance between narrator and reader.
• Never hear father’s voice.
• Order is undermined by free verse and enjambment.
• Volta when narration switches to third person.

Question 4

What are the features, form and structure of My Last Duchess?

Answer 4

• It is a single stanza dramatic monologue (only wants his thoughts to be sounded).
• It uses tight iambic pentameter and rhyming couplets.
• It is undermined by enjambment (wife’s defiance).
• It is a Diatribe (impassioned rant blaming someone).
• It is an ekphrastic poem (describes another medium in a poem)