romantic poets Flashcards
Holy Thursday; experience - Blake
four short quatrains and homespun accentual metre - nursery rhym-esque. juxtaposes content of poem
Holy Thursday; innocence - BL
three quatrains, rhyming couplets throughout. innocent and like a nursery rhyme yet the poem has a harsher tone.
The Sick Rose - BL
anapest dimeter with substitutions - inconsistent and changing throughout; much like Britain at the time
The Tyger - BL
six quatrains with trochaic tetrameter
London - BL
iambic tetrameter, with some catalexis. alternating rhyme scheme has a sing-song quality
Tintern abbey - Wordsworth
blank verse - unrhyming with imabic pentameter. as if he is talking - recollecting a memory from childhood
Lines written in Early Spring - W
six quatrains. iambic tetrameter for first 3 lines of each then iambic trimeter for last line
Initimations of Immortality - W
iambic pentameter, tetrameter, and trimeter.
My 36th year - Byron
10 quatrains - building up. irregular pattern of iambic tetrameter and dimeter. redirecting passion of love to rigidity of war
Cup Formed from a Skull - B
six quatrains with alternating rhyme scheme - sing-song.
Dejection, near Naples - SH
iambic tetrameter
Ode to the West Wind- Shelley
iambic pentameter - speaking to the wind, begging it for help
So We’ll Go no more a Roving - B
accentual metre - used in traditional english poetry, folk and nursery rhymes. reflecting upon history
Ode to a Nightingale - K
iambic pentameter. longing yet acceptance
Ode to melancholy - K
iambic pentameter
