Stanza

A sestina is a type of poem consisting of six six-line stanzas with a three-line concluding stanza, called an envoy. Sestinas generally do not rhyme, and have a very specific pattern of word placement. Each line of the six stanzas ends in one of a series of the same set of six words which are repeated in an altered order at the end of each line in each stanza, and are included in the envoy. The set of six words that Elizabeth Bishop has selected to repeat in her poem Sestina are ‘house’, ‘grandmother’

open minded. “The whiskey on your breath” (1) is how the speaker chose to start stanza one, which makes you begin to infer that the father must be an alcoholic. This could cause anyone to have negative thoughts about why the son wants

A wise man does not want to die without his words of wisdom making their own mark on this world. By the third stanza he uses an image of the ocean as a symbol to describe last generation of men that dieing. By using the ocean he shows that by the waves crashing against rocks it is giving life in a green bay. By the fourth stanza brings in another type of person that don’t allow themselves to fade into the night without fighting back. This is the person that have lived

reader’s attention. This poem is filled with so many bright and vivid colors and different moods that it attracts the reader. Each stanza shows a different scene or a different moment in the same area and exuding different emotions to share that moment and feeling. The first two stanzas and the last three stanzas are in the present, while the third and fourth stanzas are flashbacks or memories she is having as she remembers her lost lover. The title “Patterns” refers to the gown that the speaker

prostitution in order to provide money for her daughter. This set of events The events that unfold in her life changes her outlook on life. The song “I Dreamed a Dream” from the musical Les Miserables builds figurative language throughout the multiple stanzas to tell the listener that hopeful dreams will be destroyed by the many evils in life. The song starts out telling

the one hand versus staying at home on the other hand. It consists of five stanzas. The first stanza of this poem focuses on the negative aspects of travelling. The second stanza, which is still more focused on the negative aspects, consists mostly of questions. However, a significant turning point can be found in the third stanza: here the author begins to mention the positive aspects of travelling. The last two stanzas are shorter than the previous ones and they are a notebook entry of a traveller

prison. This is where he taught himself to read and write. He composed many poems during his time in jail. His style of writing is also heavily influenced by his life experiences. Baca’s poem “ I am offering this poem” has four stanzas and seven lines in each stanza. Each stanza ends in the same verse “I love you”. The entire poem exudes the feeling of yearning and infatuation. Baca is said to have composed this poem during his time in prison, which meant he was unable to reach his loved one. Therefore

The 20th Century. It was written in four line stanzas and now I am going to analyse this poem and talk about each stanza. In the first line of the first stanza, we notice that the child Louis MacNeice is using specific detail in his poem as he says he was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries. MacNeice was brought up among a lot of divisions and when there was a lot of trouble going on, he mentions divisions in his second stanza when he says, "The Scotch Quarter was a line

be a woman, given the gentle and delicate way of writing, shown through the first stanza “gold so thin, only an old woman would notice its weight”. The poem consists of 14 stanzas but varies in length probably contributing to a shift in mood and tone of the poem. The poem begins with the description of the Lunulae as soon as the visitor walks in where they comment on the gold on the Lunulae and that it was

pantoum, that includes a specific style of quatrains. The poem includes the rhyme scheme abab, no set amount of stanzas, and a set pattern for the lines. These characteristics make “Swing” a pantoum. Rhyme scheme incorporates one of the many characteristic that makes “Swing.” a pantoum. Each of the four stanzas contain the classical rhyme scheme abab. In the poem “Swing.”, each stanza follows suit with with the abab rhyme scheme. Amelia O’Malley’s poem shows this in the eight lines below, Swaying