Structure And Form

Question 1

Form and rhyme scheme

Answer 1

Ballad
ABCB

Four line stanzas - quatrains

Iambic rhythm (unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable) - breaks from this in last line of each stanza

Last line seems truncated - somethings missing - sense of unfulfilment.

Question 2

The Ballad Form

Answer 2

Generally created to be narratives

Created in the Middle Ages

Keats is trying to bring back this Romantic form. Going back to a period before the enlightenment period.

Question 3

Structure

Answer 3

Cyclical

‘Alone and palely loitering’

Question 4

Title translation

Answer 4

The beautiful woman without mercy

This was the name of a poem written in the early 15th century about courtly love. First 24 stanzas describe a mourning poet. Alone on horseback. Stripped of his capacity to feel by death.

Idealised existence ending and causing an inability to feel.