Who so Structure Flashcards
What’s the rhyme scheme?
ABBA ABBA CDDC EE
What’s the effect of a rhyme scheme?
Controlled and consistent suggests hes reflected on the process and learnt from it.
Repetition can also reflect obsession
What’s the metre in the poem?
Iambic pentameter
What’s the effect of the metre?
Shows him pacing himself as he comes to the senses of his loss.
What’s shown in the first lines of the poem?
Metrical ambiguity
What does the metrical ambiguity show?
Sense of tripping motion as he falls for the woman.
What’s the form of the poem?
Petrarchan sonnet
What’s the effect of the form?
tends to be from the point of view of a man longing for a woman to return.
Volta
He begins to accept that Shes unattainable
How does the poem end?
In a closer proximity with a couplet.
What’s the effect of the poems ending?
More final feel.
How does Wyatt juxtapose the typical conventions of a petrarchan sonnet?
The octave usually presents the problem and the sestet resolves it however this is changed in this poem as the consequences are presented in the octave and the sestet describes what led to those consequences.
How many stanzas?
Octave and sestet
