Romantics form & structure Flashcards
What form does Blake use in his ‘Holy Thursday’ (SoI) “Twas on a Holy Thursday…” ?
4 quatrains in rhyming couplets, iambic heptameter with occasional shifts to trochees.
- Rhyme and meter make it sound nursery-rhyme like, veiled sense of childishness and innocence, hides the true meaning
What form does Blake use in his ‘Holy Thursday’ (SoE) “Is this a holy thing…” ?
4 quatrains, S1 rhyming couplets, S234 ABCB. Iambic tetrameter, trochees, spondees.
- Hymnn form - hides true meaning, undisguised tirade attacking those who made a polarised society.
What form does Blake use in his ‘The Sick Rose’?
2 quatrains with ABCB rhyme in Anapestic dimeter.
- Short quatrains creates ominous atmosphere with foreboding rhythm that contributes to poem’s sense of dread.
What form does Blake use in his ‘The Tyger’?
6 quatrains in rhyming couplets, trochaic tetrameter. L4 & 24 in iambic tetrameter.
- Graphology of poem represents stripes and symmetry of tigers. The lines of Iambic tetrameter are ironic as they contain the word ‘symmetry’ but aren’t.
What form does Blake use in his ‘London’?
4 quatrains with alternating rhyme scheme in iambic tetrameter.
- Strict structure shows societal control.
- Rhyme and meter sounds like someone walking.
What form does Wordsworth use in his ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’?
What form does Wordsworth use in his ‘Tintern Abbey’?
What form does Wordsworth use in his ‘Ode: Intimations of immortality’?
What form does Byron use in his ‘Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull’?
6 quatrains, alternating rhyme scheme, iambic tetrameter.
- Structured form contrasts theme of life’s unpredictability.
- Rhyme and meter reflect timeless universal nature of poem.
- Indentations = unsettled energy - defying page form like Byron’s disregard of death.
What form does Byron use in his ‘So We’’ Go No More a Roving’?
3 quatrains, three beat accentuated meter, alternating rhyme scheme and slant rhyme.
- Meter often found in English ballads discussing tragedy.
- Structure and rhyme = logical decision and conscious thoughts.
What form does Byron use in his ‘On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year’?
10 quatrains, iambic tetrameter and dimeter, alternating and slant rhyme scheme.
- Structure = tight and orderly contrast turbulent emotions.
- Meter = reflects Sapphic stanza - Sappho who wrote about intense love.
- Rhyme = doesn’t fit - speaker doesn’t fit to love.
What form does Shelley use in his ‘The Cold Earth Slept Below’?
4 septets, irregular rhyme, predominantly iambic with variations in length.
- Variations appear when something is revealed in regard to speaker’s loss.
What form does Shelley use in his ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples’?
Influenced by Spenserian stanza, ABABBCBCC rhyme scheme broken down through, iambic tetrameter concluding each line with an alexandrine.
- Deviates from Spenserian stanza with a suggestion of something amiss, mirroring Shelley’s feeling of dejection and loss.
- Rhyme breaks down and contrasts a jovial tone with the poem’s sombre content.
- Tetrameter diverges from traditional Spenserian pentameter, reflecting monotony and repetitiveness of depressive thoughts.
- Alexandrine makes it stand out and emphasises isolation.
What form does Shelley use in his ‘Ode To The West Wind’?
5 Cantos, Terza Rima, Sonnets, Irregular meter
- 5 cantos in sonnet form shows Shelleys reverence to nature and appreciation of its power.
- Terza Rima - occasionally disrupted to show the power of wind.
- Wild metre allows poem to burst through its boundaries suggesting the winds unruly and disobedient nature.
What form does Shelley use in his ‘The Question’?
5 octaves, iambic pentameter, Ottava Rima.
- Dense structure alludes to lushness of imagination.
- Metrical variations prevent rigidity, fruitful mind.
- Rhyme enhances musicality, adding to imaginations beauty.
