Relationship Poetry

Question 1

Love’s Dog

Answer 1

Rhyming couplets
‘What I love about love is its zookeeper - you’
‘What I love about love/What I hate about love’
‘Eat me/Drink me’
‘petting zoo’

Question 2

Sonnet 43

Answer 2

Petrarchan Sonnet, ABBA ABBA CDCDCD
‘I love thee…’
‘I shall but love thee better after death’

Question 3

Neutral Tones

Answer 3

ABBA
‘a pond edged with greyish leaves’
‘a few leaves lay on the starving sod’

Question 4

My Father would not show us

Answer 4

Dramatic Monologue
‘my father’s face’
‘but not the soft, for some reason/unfrozen collar of his striped pyjamas’
‘house with a tin roof’

Question 5

Nettles

Answer 5

Dramatic monologue
‘My son aged three’
‘Till not a nettle in that fierce parade/stood upright any more’
‘called up tall recruits’

Question 6

1st date

Answer 6

Unconventional, two perspectives
Light hearted, humorous use of dramatic irony
‘or else I’ll have nothing to say’
‘and quite undistracted by me’
‘that neckline can’t fail to intrigue’

Question 7

My Last Duchess

Answer 7

Dramatic monologue
Sinister, Dark
‘Notice Neptune, though’
‘Looking as if she were alive, I call that piece a wonder’

Question 8

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Answer 8

Traditional English Ballad
ABCB
‘a faery’s child’
‘and no birds sung’
‘fragrant zone’ ‘sweet moan’
‘alone and paley loitering’
‘fading rose’