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    our ABA rhyme scheme. ‘One Art’s’ ordering of language and imagery are very intertwined and support one another throughout this piece. Villanelle’s are typically written with nineteen lines broken into five tercets ending in a quatrain. The first and third line of each tercet‚ commonly consist of two refrains‚ alternately repeating until the last stanza. Elizabeth chose to break away from tradition. She did this by having the first refrain‚ ‘The art of losing isn’t hard to master’‚ repeat

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    Critical Literary Analysis of “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas Dealing with hardships such as having a family member on their death bed can be extremely difficult‚ and in “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas you get to experience the author’s hardship with his father’s acceptance of death. Throughout this poem you think of‚ and feel how heartfelt and inspiring the author is. The author creates these effects to emphasize his use of figurative language‚ from

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    This is a poem about the joy and sadness that comes with the flash of burning life soon blown out with nothing more then a sigh. It focuses on the sadness as those we care for go far too gently into that good night. Of those who left before their time. As this poem was written specifically for Thomas’s dying father it is even more poignant in the emotional weight the words convey. This poem radiates with intensity‚ in particular‚ the verse beginning: "wild men who caught and

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    why in line sixteen he is distanced from the speaker by the use of the word "height" (see above quotation). Because this is a villanelle‚ the father is further separated from the other men because he is mentioned in the only quatrain rather than a tercet. Furthermore this encourages the reader to notice this stanza‚ and highlights the importance of it too. The poet is disappointed that his father is unlike these other men because he does not want his father to die. When parents die‚ we lose our last

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    to lose these‚ either. Whether we believe the speaker or not is subjective. Some may read the last line as jovially dismissive as the rest of the speaker’s dismissals to this point—a “whatever‚” to use modern parlance. But what is strange in this tercet are the two words that the speaker has avoided mentioning: “lovely” and “miss.” Why “lovely” and not any other adjective—one that could suggest size‚ like “massive‚” or prestige‚ like “central?” They may not be the prettiest examples‚ but they avoid

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    Eliot. Form is the metrical and stanziac organization of a poem. T.S. Eliot write the first Prelude in a 13-line stanza. He writes the second Prelude in Cinquains. He uses 15 stanza form in Prelude three. For Prelude four he uses 9-Quatrain-Tercet. I believe that he wrote these Preludes in Traditional writting because it has metrics and stanziac writtings and Candence which is phrases which fall into Symmetrical or almost Symmetrical patterns observed when speech rhythm is highly organized

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    written‚ predominantly‚ in iambic tetrameter of two stresses per foot and four feet per line. This tends to echo natural speech and strengthens the impression of conversation between intimates. The first stanza comprises three rhyming couplets‚ a tercet and two further rhyming couplets. These follow the rhyme scheme aabbccdedeeff.. Lines 7 and 9 break the rhythm as they contain nine stresses and thus have hypermetrical‚ feminine endings which allow the poet ’s thoughts to flow smoothly. These lines

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    use‚ it allows the poet to combine the sonnet lines in rhetorically more complex ways. Shakespeare often gave special emphasis to the break between the second and third quatrains (equivalent to the major break between the 8 quatrain lines and the 6 tercet lines in the Italian sonnet)‚ but he also paired and contrasted the quatrains in many other ways‚ creating a great range of argumentative or dramatic effects. Shakespeare invested the couplet with special significance. It often summarizes or characterizes

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    finally for the punishment of sinners that are damned eternally.” (Agoodmixture.) Dante’s Comedia was made up of three books‚ the Inferno‚ Purgatorio‚ and Paridiso. Each book was made up of thirty-three cantos‚ which were each written in tercets. A tercet is a unit or group of three lines of a verse. The poems rhyme scheme was in a three letterform; aba‚ bcb‚ cdc‚ and so on (Agoodmixture.) In Dante’s Inferno‚ Dante and Virgil take a three-day journey through hell. The number three is everywhere

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    imploring of Thomas’s father.  Rios’s "Nani" has a more free verse feel‚ despite its repetitions‚ and it uses the sestina form to create both a sense of narrative and a more reflective mood.   The Villanelle is a short poem of fixed form‚ written in tercets (three rhyming lines) usually five in number‚ all followed by a final quatrain (four rhyming lines) all based on two rhymes. By basing the poem off of two end rhymes and repeating the two key lines‚ the poet creates a strong rhythmic feel to the poem

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