Rhyme CN/WA
Where is the Rhyme in this poem?
“The Land of Dreams”
By William Blake
“...Awake, awake my little Boy!
Thou wast thy Mother's only joy:
Why dost thou weep in thy gentle sleep?
Awake! thy Father does thee keep.
"O, what land is the Land of Dreams?
What are its mountains, and what are its streams?
O Father, I saw my Mother there,
Among the lillies by waters fair.
Among the lambs clothed in white
She walked with her Thomas in sweet delight.
I wept for joy, like a dove I mourn -
O when shall I return again?"
Dear child, I also by pleasant streams
Have wandered all night in the Land of Dreams;
But though calm and warm the waters wide,
I could not get to the other side.
"Father, O Father, what do we here,
In this land of unbelief and fear?
The Land of Dreams is better far
Above the light of the Morning Star."...”
Where through this whole poem can you see rhyme?
Every last word of each line except for mourn and again.
Connor Nicolas
What two things are being personified, and what are the personified actions?
“Paradise Lost” by John Milton
“...Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe...”
What is the Earth feeling wounded? What is Nature sighing and giving signs of woe?
What is the symbol in this poem, and what does it symbolize?
“The Raven” By Edgar Allan Poe
“...And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted- nevermore!...”
What is the raven that watched over the narrator, which symbolizes death of a loved one?
What is the simile in this poem?
“A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns
1.”...O, my Luve's like a red, red rose,...”
2.”...That's newly sprung in June...”
What is:
1.”...O, my Luve's like a red, red rose,...”
What is the structure in this poem?
“Why are People Starving?”
By Lao Tzu
“...Why are people starving?
Because the rulers eat up the money in taxes.
Therefore the people are starving.
Why are the people rebellious?
Because the rulers interfere too much.
Therefore they are rebellious...”
ED
What is each stanza contains 3 lines, and each ending word of the first line is the same as the ending word of the last line?
What is the Rhyme in this poem?
“The Pasture” By Robert Frost
“...I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha'n't be gone long.-You come too...”
What is young and tongue?
What is being personified, and what is the personified action?
“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen
“...Her heart was divided between concern for her sister, and resentment against all the others...”
What is the heart feeling concern and resentment?
What line is the symbol in, and what does it symbolize?
“O Captain! My Captain!” By Walt Whitman
“...My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead...”
What is the first line, which symbolizes Abraham Lincoln’s Death?
What is the simile in this poem?
”The Destruction of Sennacherib” By Lord Byron
1.”...And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold;...”
2.”...The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,...”
What is:
2.”...The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,...”
What is the structure in this poem?
“Fog” by Carl Sandburg
“...The fog comes
on little cat feet
it sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on...”
“Sonnet 29” by William Shakespeare
“...When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings...”
What is the difference between a sonnet and a free verse poem is that a sonnet has fourteen lines and a strict rhyme scheme while free verse can have no rhyme and has no set structure
What is the Rhyme pattern in this poem?
“Meeting at Night” By Robert Browning
I.
“...The grey sea and the long black land;
And the yellow half-moon large and low;
And the startled little waves that leap
In fiery ringlets from their sleep,
As I gain the cove with pushing prow,
And quench its speed i' the slushy sand...”
II.
“...Then a mile of warm sea-scented beach;
Three fields to cross till a farm appears;
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match,
And a voice less loud, thro' its joys and fears,
Than the two hearts beating each to each...”
What is ABCCBA?
What is being personified? What is the personified action?
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare
“...TITANIA: No night is now with hymn or carol blessed.
Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
Pale in her anger, washes all the air,
That rheumatic diseases do abound...”
What is the moon is angry and washes the air?
What is the symbol in this poem?
“The Fish” By William Butler Yeats
“...Although you hide in the ebb and flow
Of the pale tide when the moon has set,
The people of coming days will know
About the casting out of my net,
And how you have leaped times out of mind
Over the little silver cords,
And think that you were hard and unkind,
And blame you with many bitter words...”
What is a woman?
What is the simile in this poem?
”Autumn” By John Clare
1.”...Hill-tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun,...”
2.”...And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run;...”
What is:
1.”...Hill-tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun,...”
What is the syntax in this poem?
“Beyond Decoration” By
P.J. Kavanagh
“...But I am stalled, and sad is not the word
Go out I cannot, nor can I stay in…”
What is “...Go out I cannot...”?
What is the Rhyme in this poem?
“I Watched Thee” By Lord Byron
1.”...I watched thee when the fever glazed thine eyes...”
2. “...From thence, if thou an early grave hadst found...”
What is neither? (Trick Question)
What is being personified, and what is the personified action?
“Once by the Pacific” by Robert Frost
“...The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others coming in, And thought of doing something to the shore That water never did to land before...”
What are the Great waves looking over others?
What is the symbol in this poem, and what does it symbolize?
“The Voice” By Charles Baudelaire
“...When two Voices addressed me. "Earth's a cake,"
Said one, "and full of sweetness. I can make
Your appetite to its proportions equal
Forever and forever without sequel."...”
What is the voice, which symbolizes happiness?
What is the simile in this poem?
”Kubla Khan” By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1.”...Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:...”
2.”...Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,...”
What is:
2.”...Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,...”
What is the structure in this poem?
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By Edgar Allan Poe
“...The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
The wantonest singing birds,
Are lips- and all thy melody
Of lip-begotten words-
Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrined,
Then desolately fall,
O God! on my funereal mind
Like starlight on a pall-
Thy heart- thy heart!- I wake and sigh,
And sleep to dream till day
Of the truth that gold can never buy-
Of the baubles that it may...” WA
What is structure and what is an example of structure in this poem?
What is structure is when each stanza has the same exact number of lines? An example of structure is this whole poem because each stanza has four lines. WA
What is the Rhyme pattern in this poem?
“The Fish” By William Butler Yeats
“...Although you hide in the ebb and flow
Of the pale tide when the moon has set,
The people of coming days will know
About the casting out of my net,
And how you have leaped times out of mind
Over the little silver cords,
And think that you were hard and unkind,
And blame you with many bitter words...”
What is ABABCDCD?
What two things are being personified, and what are the personified actions?
“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“...But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him...”
What is the wild rose-bush offering its fragrance and beauty? What is Nature being pity and kind?
What is the symbol in this poem, and what does it symbolize?
“My Star” by Robert Browning
“All, that I know
Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
Now a dart of blue
Till my friends have said
They would fain see, too,
My star that dartles the red and the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:
They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a world?
Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.”
What is a star, which symbolizes the author’s lover?
What is the simile in this poem?
”Dance of Death” By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1.”...Alas for the warder! his doom is decreed!...”
2.”...Like a long-legged spider, with ne'er-changing speed,...”
What is:
2.”...Like a long-legged spider, with ne'er-changing speed,...”
What is the syntax in this poem?
“Richard III” by William Shakespeare
“...And all the clouds that lower’d upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried...”
What are all the clouds that are buried?