AP English Language and Composition 2 February 2012 Word Count: 516 Analysis of “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” William Wordsworth’s‚ “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”‚ focuses mainly on the beautiful things that nature has to offer. Nature is very important to Wordsworth and it is clear in his writing. Originally the poem was two stanzas and the final version (published in 1815) had four. The feeling of the poem is positive and this attitude remains generally the same throughout
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Lines composed Upon Westminster Bridge 1. The poem is in the form of a Petrarchan sonnet. A Sonnet is a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of 14 iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme. It is of two kinds: a) Italian or Petrarchan - falls in two parts - Octave rhyming abba abba followed by a sestet rhyming cdecde or cdccdc. It was first imitated by England both in stanza form and subject – by Milton‚ Wordsworth‚ Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. b) English or Shakespearean
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2Morrow Today is filled with anger fueled with hidden hate scared of being outcast afraid of common fate In this first stanza there is a rhyming scheme. “Hate” and “fate” rhyme. Fate determines who and what you will be. When he wrote “afraid of common fate”‚ he was saying that he is afraid that gang-life is going to become his destiny. The rhyme scheme in this poem is A‚B‚C‚B. The mood in this stanza is worried or anxious. Today is built on tragedies which no one wants 2 face nightmares 2 humanities
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that utilizes rhyme‚ imagery and metaphor. It shows the purpose of the poem with ease and keeps the poem simple. In the poem the author uses rhyme schemes to show the purpose of the essay with ease. The rhyme scheme here is kept simple in order to keep the reader interested. It goes A‚ B‚ A‚ B throughout the whole poem‚ which is only three stanzas. The rhyming in the poem also makes the poem very clear to the point that you can see what is going on throughout the poem. He rhymes everything in
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structure as Shakespeare’s other sonnets‚ containing fourteen lines and written in iambic pentameter‚ and composed of three rhyming quatrains with a rhyming couplet at the end. However‚ it does not follow the traditional English rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Rather‚ the scheme is ABAB CDCD EBEB FF. As noted by Bernhard Frank‚ Sonnet 29 includes two distinct sections with the Speaker explaining his current depressed state of mind in the first octave and then conjuring what appears to be a happier image
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symbolism. Structures in each poem are alike with length but differ with the actual form. The tone Plath conveys is negative one while Sexton’s is more neutral. The symbolism in “Daddy” was also negative with symbols of the devil but Sexton used a nursery rhyme as a symbol. The connotations of these elements reflect the image the daughters had of their fathers but also the relationships. These poems also both deal with the theme of identity and convey how the relationship of father and daughter consequently
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the reader can be debated‚ thus‚ warranting several readings. True to Frost’s style‚ “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep” reads with a musical quality. The rhythm and the rhyme are like that of a siren’s song‚ compelling its audience to read and reread it again. The seemingly ordinary diction combined with the lyrical abab rhyme scheme‚ mesmerizes the reader. But upon multiple readings‚ the reader discovers a much deeper world beyond the/these musical qualities. The ambiguity of the language Frost
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Mowing There was never a sound beside the wood but one‚ A And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. B What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself; C Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun‚ A extra syllable Something‚ perhaps‚ about the lack of sound— B And that was why it whispered and did not speak. D extra s. / emphasis It was no dream of the gift of idle hours‚ E emphasis Or easy gold at the hand of fay or elf: C emphasis Anything more
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first eight-line part is called the octave‚ with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba; the second six-line part is called the sestet‚ with a rhyme scheme of cdecde. Gradually the Italian sonnet pattern was changed. Since Shakespeare attained fame for the greatest poems of this modified type‚ his name has often been given to the English form of the sonnet. The English sonnet is made up of three quatrains and a concluding couplet‚ with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. In the Shakespearean sonnet each
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personification of a horse to draw attention to common yet significant ideas. One of the literary devices that Frost uses to get his impressions across to his reader is rhyme scheme; specifically‚ he employs end rhyme. The rhyme scheme in this poem is AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD. In the first three stanzas‚ this rhyme scheme draws attention to the third line. The reason Frost is trying to emphasize these lines is that each line contains a sensory detail about his surroundings. In line 3‚ the
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