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Author:
William Shakespeare |
Poem(s): "shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: english sonnet "Th'expense of spirit in a waste of shame" Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: shakespearian sonnet, iambic pentameter, "savage" = trochee |
Author:
Andrew Marvell |
Poem: To his coy mistress
Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: iambic tetrameter, tetrameter couplet off rhyme = would, flood |
Author:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Poem: how do i love thee
Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: Italian sonnet, iambic pentameter. anaphora, serenity and tranquility, simile |
Author:
Edna St. Vincent Millay |
Poem: what lips my lips have kissed and where and why
Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: italian sonnet, octave remebering the lovers, sestet tree metaphor; sad |
Author:
Dylan Thomas |
Poem: do not go gentle into that good night
Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: villanelle, iambic pentameter, "blinding sight"= oxymoron |
Author:
William Blake |
Poem(s): the tyger
Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: six quatrains of rhyming couplets with a pulsing, steady, mostly-trochaic rhythm Poem(s): the sick rose Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: anapestic dimeter with substitutions |
Author:
William Wordsworth |
Poem: tintern abbey
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798 Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: blank verse, lyrical ballad |
Author:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Poem: kubla khan: or a vision in a dream
Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: rhyming iambic pentameter, male/female archetypes, binaries, gendered aspect to the landscape; the sublime, the power of beauty and nature. pagan |
Author:
John Keats |
Poem: ode to a nightingale
Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: english ode, iambic pentameter. alternative means to escaping the struggles of his life. analogous to shakespeare's pagan play- mid summer night's dream |
Author:
Matthew Arnold |
Poem: dover beach
Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: free verse assonance, consonance, alliteration, anaphora onomatopoetic for the waves |
Author:
Walt Whitman |
Poem: "i celebrate myself, i sing myself" aka song of myself
(american trancendentalism, 1800's) Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: free verse |
Author:
W.B. Yeats (ireland) |
Poem(s): "The second coming"
"Leda and the Swan" Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: Poem(s): "Leda and the Swan" Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: italian or petrarchan sonnet |
Author:
Robert Frost |
Poem(s): "the road not taken"
Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: interlocking rhyme scheme, rhyming quintains of iambic tetrameter (recurring anapestic substution) "stopping by woods on a snowy evening" Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: Rubaiyat stanza, iambic tetrameter, aaba |
Author:
T.S. Eliot |
Poem: "the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: free verse, syencdoche, "to coy his mistress reference" |
Author:
Sylvia Path |
Poem: morning song
Rhyme, Rhythm/Meter, Verse Form: free verse |