Stanza

overlapping significance. The poem can be analyzed for the prominence of "threes" that form layers of multiple meanings within its three stanzas. In each of the three stanzas, key words can be examined to show (through the use of the OED) how Donne brilliantly chose them because of the various connotations they had to his audience. Finally, each of the three stanzas contains completely different moods that reflect the speaker’s emotions as the situation changes. Upon knowing some of John Donne’s

organized into 6 stanzas, each stanza composed of 4 lines. Starting with the first stanza at setting sun to the last at sunrise, the majority of the poem occurs at night. Night and darkness represents the

Ernest Henley consists of sixteen lines and is divided into four stanzas. The rhyme scheme is abab-cdcd-efef-ghgh and there are exactly eight syllables in each line. This rhyme scheme and the specific syllables to each line help the phrases and lines flow together smoothly. The theme of the poem is staying strong and thriving in the face of adversity and it is very strongly present throughout the poem. In the first line of the first stanza, the word “night” could symbolize the speaker’s suffering and

a) The orientation in the poem ‘The Highwayman’ occurs in stanzas 1,2 and 3. In the first stanza we are introduced to the first two characters, Bess and the highwayman, who are deeply in love. In line 6, when the highwayman is being introduced, the reader finds out that he is riding up to the inn. In the second stanza, the poet describes some specifics only about the highwayman’s appearance. Even though the highwayman is known as a robber, he acts like the hero in the story. This gives us a powerful

and moves to the next stanza which is surrounded by blank space. In this next stanza it displays the instructors request for his students to write a paper. He splits these two lines to show a change in narration. In the first line he is narrating, and then breaks of into the instructors narration. These are two seperate people and thoughts, therefore a white space and stanza is necessary. in “white space” by Gary Lehmann he explains “White space functions to divide stanzas with distinctly different

being drawn into sleep with the speaker’s response to the woods and tone of serenity, yet always with a harsher disposition to confront reality. The poem is 4 stanzas with 4 lines each. This is a relatively consistent pattern throughout many of Frost’s poems. There’s also the

In the poem The Man He Killed, it takes place during the war. The narrator discusses meeting someone in a bar in the first stanza. In the second stanza, he tells how he killed the man. In the third stanza, he explains why he killed him. In the next stanza, he describes why he thinks the man enlisted in the war, similar to his own reason. Finally, the poem ends with him saying that you kill fellows in the war, people you could be friends with. He explains the war as quaint and curious, he is using

The second stanzas first line brings you into the action, and you are no longer just viewing the soldiers, technically, as in the first stanza. “Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling.” (Line 9) That yell of danger instills an internal panic. The soldiers who were just described as being beggars and hags are now called boys in this stanza. “Quick, boys!” (Line 9) Once boys, now soldiers who have been reduced to almost zombie-like characters are clearly brought to life here. In stanza two, Owen

The poem has a balanced rhythm and the first line rhymes with the third and final line of each stanza until the final stanza. The final stanza completes the circle and repeats the initial line of the poem. In addition to the rhyming within each stanza, Frost wrote this poem to consistently throughout where each stanza had exactly ten syllables and every other word was stressed while reading. This poem also uses night as a metaphor. Throughout the poem

around him life is interpreted by material possessions. At the beginning of the first stanza, the sentences have been made very short and simple, as if to demonstrate the thoughts of a new born child. The first voice that the baby hears when he is born is Bobby Dazzler, one of Australia's first game shows. The very first thing that the baby