English 2 Study Cards

Study for final. poetry. schemes.

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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