Remember structure

Question 1

What is the form of this poem?

Answer 1

Petracrhan sonnet

Question 2

Effect of form?

Answer 2

Typically used in love poetry

Question 3

What is a petrarchan sonnet split into?

Answer 3

Octave and sestet

Question 4

What does the octave usually do?

Answer 4

Normally presents a problem

Question 5

Octave effect in this poem?

Answer 5

Pleads with lover to remember her.

Question 6

What does the sestet usually do?

Answer 6

Forms a solution

Question 7

Sestet effect in this poem

Answer 7

selfless turn as she asks her lover to forget her

Question 8

What does the volta usually do?

Answer 8

Introduces a change or new idea.

Question 8

What is the volta in this poem?

Answer 8

‘Yet’

Question 9

What does the volta do in this poem?

Answer 9

Shows complicated connections between memory and grief.
pivotal moment as it moves on to the request.

Question 10

What meter is used?

Answer 10

Iambic pentameter

Question 11

What is the effect of this meter?

Answer 11

Sounds a lot like a heartbeat.
perfectly matches a poem about love and death.

Question 12

What’s the meter used in line 7 and 13?

Answer 12

Trochee

Question 13

What is the effect of the trochee?

Answer 13

Makes the speaker sound insistent
making sure her beloved hears and understands her.

Question 14

What’s the rhyme scheme in this poem?

Answer 14

ABBA ABBA CDD ECE

Question 15

Effect of the rhyme scheme?

Answer 15

Movement from ABBA to CDE mirrors the poems thoughts as they become more difficult.

Question 16

Another effect of the metre

Answer 16

Strict restrain to speakers words and struggles to correctly express emotions.

Question 17

how many stanzas?

Answer 17

octave and sestet