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Gallaher, who we can assume is an old friend that Heaney misses. The title of the poem is ambiguous, it could mean the last time he saw Gallaher or it could suggest that this is one final “look” back at his Old friend. There isn’t a regular rhythm or rhyme scheme as it is a poem revolving around a strong memory and therefore it is more suitable for it to be more of a narrative story. “At Castle Boterel”,

the words “louring” (2) with “gleams” (4) . These specific words all hold a dark commonality within these lines which will continue through the subsequent quatrains. Furthermore, it is made clear he is writing in the form of a sonnet with an ABAB rhyme scheme. The importance in this form may be to establish that this is not simply a stream of consciousness, or a frustrated and rushed response, but rather a structurally calculated poem. In using a

original speaker and the sweeper. You can see there is dialogue approaching because of the punctuations and quotations used within the stanza. Not only does the punctuation give the reader the idea that another person is involved, but the traditional rhyme scheme AA, BB in the first stanza makes the conversation flow smoothly. The first stanza is the only stanza with rhyming couplets that pairs the two speakers together identifying that both lines back to back is the same person speaking. “A little black

of polar opposites in measurable qualities, such as weight and the characteristics of planets fuels Collin’s appreciation of the earth. The abstinence of rhyme scheme in this poem places a larger significance on the stanzaic structure of this poem to exhibit an appreciation of earth. The poet chooses to withstand from a rhyme scheme to create a poem that is irregular in its nature, similar to the ways in which a body is composed, of how a planet is created. The poem is split into two mimicking

Coleridge is feeling because of this new dream. The lineage also is short and packed with strong verbs, such as ‘burning’ and ‘trampling’, as well as depicting visuals of Coleridge’s nightmares. Coleridge uses a combination of alternate and couplet rhyme schemes in the second stanza, which can be interpreted to his new current fear of sleep. Currently, sleep for Coleridge is a vast pit of his past wrongdoings and he no longer wants to revisit them. Coleridge begins with not really praying in comfort and

Analysis of “Anthem for Doomed Youth” Originally published in 1920, shortly after World War I, “Anthem for Doomed Youth” demonstrates the horror of the unjust deaths of young soldiers. “Anthem for Doomed Youth” is a poem about Owen’s distain towards the honourless way in which young soldiers pass on, and the impact their deaths have on the loved ones they leave behind. The following essay will show that in the anti-war poem, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, Owen uses sensational description

reader is left to interpret. Roethke wrote My Papa’s Waltz in iambic trimeter, which is a familiar rhythm created through three stressed syllables per line. More specifically, Roethke uses an ABAB rhyme scheme, which means every other line within each stanza rhymes. For example, in line 1, breath rhymes with death, appearing in line 4. “The whiskey on your breath… But I hung on like death.” The style of this piece is also uniquely formed because it resembles a waltz, which is typically written in

has 8 stanzas but there are different numbers of lines in each one for example, stanza 3 and stanza 6 have 8 lines. But in stanzas, 1,2 have lines of 6. Also Maya Angelou uses rhyme scheme in her 8 stanzas. The rhyme scheme changes throughout the poem, for example, in stanza 5 the rhyme scheme is AABBC for example, the rhymes are where, hair, girls, curls, and all. .But in stanza 6 it

Love transcends time and natural elements The poems Funeral Blues by WH Auden, and The Sun Rises by John Donne, offer two views on the experience of love on a universal proportion. Auden suggests that without love, the world should cease to continue, similarly Donne alludes to concepts of time having no business in his love. Donne’s personifies the sun as accuses the sun, giver of life to the universe as a, “busy old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus,” and questions to “thy (the suns) motions

metaphor to show his audience the horrors of war and also how unfortunate going to war is. To begin both sonnets, Sassoon and Owen develop stanzas which argue how they represent all war disgraces. Sassoon’s sonnet is composed by multiple heroic couplet rhymes, which makes the sonnet more fluid. This could relate to the lack of focus by part of the soldiers, as to show that everything was happening too fast in order for the soldiers to focus on anything else besides fighting: “why did he do it?... Starlight