Essays Tagged: "rhyming couplets"

Raical prejudice comparison in the poems 'Strange Fruit' and 'Telephone conversation'

d it is'Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh,And the sudden smell of burning flesh'The poem itself has rhyming couplets in every two sentences just like a simple poem.The title suggests that the fruit is ... sentence to sentence and has a lot of humour also it is very clever.'Strange fruit' is just a basic rhyming poem with strong language.

(3 pages) 69 0 3.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

What do you learn about the changes occurring throughout the Romantic period in Blake's poems?

n creation. The structure of the poem is very precise, with the 6 stanzas each having 4 lines and 2 rhyming couplets, with a steady rhythm throughout the poem. The last stanza is a repeat of the first ...

(5 pages) 82 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

My last duchess (analysis)

tate natural speech could be to distance himself from the duke.The poem is written entirely with rhyming couplets and he has also made use of alliteration "The dropping of the daylight in the west" ...

(3 pages) 141 2 4.4 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

"The Author To Her Book" by Anne Bradstreet.

r child and thus there is simple rhyme and rhythm. The poem is written in iambic pentameter, and in rhyming couplets. The whole piece has only three sentences, yet it is not short, and consists of man ...

(4 pages) 32 0 3.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"Seaside Serenade" by Ogden Nash.

e" by Ogden Nash. The poem is about how the writer doesn't like the seaside. The poem is written in rhyming couplets. The writer starts talking about the smell, like whenever you are on the way to the ... you find it delishes"The poet has spelt that word "delicious" like "delishes". This is to make the rhyming couplets rhyme. The weird spelling makes it amusing.Throughout the poem "Seaside Serenade" i ...

(2 pages) 21 0 0.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

John Donne's love poems

y point to his argument and to symbolise sex/marriage.In the poem Donne conveys meaning through the rhyming and structure. In each of the three stanza's the first six lines hold three sets of two rhym ... an expectation as to what will happen in those lines.The last two of the last three stanzas' has a rhyming couplet symbolising the two lovers.The use of monosyllabic words creates an intense, asserti ...

(3 pages) 22 1 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"My Last Duchess" - How is the character of the Duke slowly revealed in the poem?

the nineteenth century, more precisely, in the year of 1842. This dramatic monologue is written in rhyming couplets, but the poem is so well thought of and so well structured that the reader/listener ... poem is so well thought of and so well structured that the reader/listener doesn't even notice the rhyming sounds. During the poem, the Duke of Ferrara is speaking to an envoy of a Count, do discuss ...

(3 pages) 15 0 0.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Language Analysis of Poem: "Memories" by Jerry Ham

a chronological style which makes it easy to follow and understand. He employs a rhyme scheme, two rhyming couplets per three pairs of lines, and a sense of rhythm by using the same number of syllabl ...

(2 pages) 13 0 1.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

"Romeo & Juliet" by William Shakespeare. How does Romeo change throughout the play?

s dramatically of his "love" for Rosaline which, in fact, is probably not love at all. He speaks in rhyming couplets which makes his words sound insincere and rehearsed. He over dramatises the situati ... in the play such as Paris.Even when Romeo first sees Juliet his speech is artificial and again its rhyming couplets seem rehearsed. Romeo's sentiments only become more believable after he has met and ...

(1 pages) 4324 0 4.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

Discuss Dramatic Importance of Scenes 1 and 2 in "Macbeth" by Shakespeare

he barren land that they are situated in. The witches are chanting together, very strongly, and the rhyming couplets make the chant interesting to listen to. They also use paradox phrases, which make ...

(2 pages) 2275 0 3.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

Poem Comparisin

e about a poem is its rhythm and rhyme. Night Mail has a fast and regular rhythm, and is written in rhyming couplets. The Train uses a fast but irregular rhythm, and consecutive rhyming is used in eac ...

(2 pages) 6 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

King lear -

sed by the different language techniques that France uses, such as the use of the paradoxes and the rhyming couplets like "my chance" with "fair France" and "cold'st neglect" to "inflamed respect". By ...

(5 pages) 1633 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Analysis on the Poem "The Tiger" by William Blake

ure. "What the hand dare seize the fire."The poet, William Blake, uses a lot of rhyme in this poem. Rhyming couplets are found throughout the poem. "What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace wa ... What the anvil? What dread grasp, dare its deadly terrors clasp?" William Blake never uses the same rhyming sound twice. Every couplet has a different rhyming sound. All in all, the rhyming scheme is ...

(2 pages) 28 3 3.7 Mar/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

'A Mother to her Waking Infant' by Joanna Baillie, Analyse the poem and comment on the poetic form and the language used and the way they contribute to the meaning and effects of the poem.

x lines long except for the fifth stanza which is an octet. The stanzas are formed of sets of three rhyming couplets in the form AABBCC DDEEFF, the metre is Iambic Tetrameter but each stanza includes ... and returns us to the soft, deliberate language at the start of the next stanza. The effect of the rhyming couplet scheme is to give a ‘sing-song’ quality to the poem, you can imagine the mother ge ...

(6 pages) 14 1 4.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Biography of Elizabeth Bennett Browning

By her twelfth year she had written her first so called epic poem, which consisted of four books of rhyming couplets. In 1819, her father arranged for the printing of one of her poems.This work that w ...

(3 pages) 13 1 5.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry