Just Poetry Anthology Quotes Maybe Form And Structure Flashcards
(18 cards)
The manhunt quotes
“Only then would he let me trace the frozen river which ran through his face”
Embjambent
“The blown hinge of his lower jaw”
Short fragmented structure with short often incomplete lines.
“The foetus of metal beneath his chest”
“Then I widened the search”
Sonnet 43 quotes
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height”
“If God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.”
Petrarchan sonnet and iambic pentameter
London quotes
“Charter’s street””charter’d Thames”
Iambic tetrameter and ABAB structure
“and mark in every face I meet marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“mind-forg’d manacles”
“Blights with plagues the Marriage hearse”
The soldier quotes
“Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam”
Sonnet
“A pulse in the eternal mind”
“Under an English heaven”
She walks in beauty quotes
“She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies”
Enjambment
“One shade the more, one ray the less”
“Serenely sweet express, how pure
ABAB rhyme scheme
Living space quotes
“Nothing is flat or parallel”
No regular rhyme scheme
“Into this rough frame, someone has squeezed a living space”
Enjambment
“These eggs in a wire basket” “as if they were bright, thin walls of faith”
As imperceptibly as Grief quotations
“As imperceptibly as grief”
“The summer lapsed away”
Enjambment
“Too imperceptible at last To seem like Perfidy-“
Stable rhythm mostly in regular iambic metre containing six or eight syllables per line
Quotes from Cozy Apologia
“I could pick anything and think of you-This lamp, the wind-still rain, the glossy blue”
First two lines in iambic pentameter but lacks a fixed metrical structure throughout.
“They all had sissy names-Marcel, Percy, Dewey; were thin as Licorice and as chewy”
Iambic tetrameter
“We’re content, but fall short of the Digine. Still, its embarrassing, this happiness-“
Valentine quotes
“It will blind you with tears like a lover”
Free verse and absence of rhyme scheme
“I am trying to be truthful” - single line as stanza
“It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief.”
“Not a cute card or kissogram
A wife in London quotes
“A wife in London”
“He-has fallen-in the far South Land”
Present tense
“New love” - last line
Partial rhyme in second stanza “smartly/shortly”
Excerpt from The Prelude quotes
“It was a time of rapture
“We hiss’s along the polish’s ice”
Enjambment
“The pack loud bellowing”
Entire poem in a single stanza
Mametz Wood quotes
“A chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder blade”
“This morning, twenty men buried in one long grave”
Mix of end-stopped lines and enjambment
“A broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm”
Ozymandias quotes
“Sands stretch far away”
“Nothing beside remains”
Enjambment
“Colossal wreck”
14 line sonnet blends both Petrarchan and Shakespearean
“Boundless and bare”
“Lone and level”
Dulce et Decorum Est quotes
“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”
Stanza one has consistent rhyme scheme but interrupted in second and third stanzas
“Gas!GAS!Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling”
Enjambment
First person and present tense
“He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”
“The old Lie: Dluce et decorum est Pro patria Mori”
Afternoons quotes
“Setting free their children”
“Behind them, at intervals, stand husbands in skilled trades”
“Their beauty has thickened” - shortest sentence in poem.
Uses very long sentences -reflects monotony
Hawk Roosting quotes
“The convenience of the high trees”
“It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather”
Circular structure
“The sun is behind me”
Free verse
To Autumn quotes
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun”
“Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?”
It’s an ode
“While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day”
Enjambment
Death of a Naturalist quotes
“The warm thick slobber Of frogspawn that grew like clotted water”
“Then one hot day when fields were rank” s
Structures in two distinct parts
“anrgy frogs Invaded the flax-dam
Free verse
