Stanza

sonnet. The fourteen lines are broken into two stanzas. The first stanza introduces the poem through the usage of enjambment. By using enjambment, Frost allows the reader to become acclimated to the story. This acclimation is necessary due to the usage of imagery in the poem. End-stopped lines are used next to pull the story along. Frost then uses enjambment again to act as a reprieve before the stanza concludes with an end-stopped line. The second stanza, which coincides with the beginning of the second

In the first stanza, the third-person semi-omniscient speaking voice establishes the conclusive paradigm of the poem: death by suicide. Though the death of the individual is a highly conventional type of tragic presentation, the way in which this presentation is established

be filled with imagery as the majestic creature flaps its large wings maybe hunting its prey or just enjoying the cooling air. Paraphrase The first stanza sets the setting for the arrival of the hawk in the evening. It describes the time of day talking about shadows and last light. The end of the stanza talks about the hawk arriving. The second stanza describes the hawk itself using elaborate descriptions and imagery. Its wing is put into focus as it is described as a sharp edge that is cutting

ultimately shows the flexibility of society. The poem's structure consists of four stanzas. The first, second, and third stanza follow an abcc rhyme scheme, and the last stanza follows an aabb rhyme scheme. A the reader progresses through each stanza, it is seen that the narrator's dissatisfaction of her confinement

In the first stanza of the poem “Six Words” by Lloyd Schwartz, the speaker introduces the six words which are yes, no, maybe, sometimes, always, and never. The second stanza the speaker used the words to ask questions and uses the words to answer them. The speaker asks “never?” and answers with “yes”. This could be interpreted yes you will never do what you said. Then, the speaker says “always?” and answers “no” as in you do not always do what you say. Next, the speaker states “sometimes?” and responds

Twain” has some obvious patterns. Each stanza has three lines each and each stanza follow a different rhyme scheme, for example, “Prepared a sinister mate/ For her—so gaily great—/A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate.” In this stanza, every last word ends with a similar sound “ate.” However, the next stanza does not follow this rhyme scheme, instead ends with a different sound. None of the stanzas repeats a rhyme scheme. This pattern separates each stanza, but it also brings attention to how

poem as having the closed form. The poem is regular, symmetrical, and falls into stanzas. The first five stanzas have three lines and the last stanza contains four lines. A longer peruse of "One Art" will help the reader identify the villanelle form. The first line of the poem is repeated in the 2nd, 4th and 6th stanzas, while the last word of the first stanza (3rd line) is repeated in the 3rd, 5th, and 6th stanzas. The poem appears to have the powerful music effect that is usually associated with

Laurie Lee (1914 –1997) was an English writer who served in the Spanish Civil War. His poem “Field of Autumn” is a lyric poem consisting of six stanzas of four lines each. The second and the fourth lines in each stanza rhyme, giving a sense of predictability and consistency. This can be contrasted with the actual theme of the poem, which is ultimately a metaphor for death, a description of the inevitability of the end of life as time elapses, through the description of a shift of seasons from autumn

rhyme scheme: · In stanza 1: Lines 1, 2 and 4 all rhyme ('know', 'though', 'snow'), and only line 3 ('here') does not rhyme. · But line 3 of stanza 1 becomes the rhyme sound for the first, second and fourth lines of stanza 2: 'queer', 'near', 'year'. · This format is repeated in stanza 3: the first, second and fourth lines rhyme ('shake', 'mistake', 'flake') and the third line ('sweep') does not rhyme but it becomes the rhyme sound for stanza 4 ('deep', 'keep',

first learned the English language—during war time, when he was still a young and naïve boy. The persona’s narration is recollective in nature, but there is an evident attempt to detach himself from the experiences he had a long time ago. The first stanza of the poem offers us with descriptions of the temporal and spatial dimensions the boy was situated in through the use of figures of speech, namely metaphor and metonymy. “[S]ky began burning” is a metaphor for the bright explosions and burning debris