Archive for September, 2007

Rotation 3 Blog 2
Thursday, September 27th, 2007

“Running on Empty” by Robert Phillips
Eleven stanzas with two lines in each. No rhyme scheme, has prosaic elements. Phillips has written this poem as if he is telling it as a story. It is in the past tense but also using present tense (The fuel gauge dipping, dipping toward Empty, hitting Empty…). I don’t completely [...]

Rotation 3 Blog 1
Thursday, September 27th, 2007

“The Donkey” by G.K. Chesterton
Four stanzas with four lines (quatrain) in each stanza. The second and fourth lines of each stanza are rhyming. I thought it might be an a,b,a,b rhyme scheme with the a’s being slant rhymes, but once I looked closer I didn’t find the words to similar enough to be slant rhymes. [...]

Rotation 2 Blog 1
Sunday, September 16th, 2007

The Three Ravens – Anonymous Terminal refrain- “with a down”. Reads like lyrics to a song. Six stanzas but varying amount of lines in each stanza; the first stanza has 4 lines the middle stanzas have 7 lines and the last stanza has 3 lines. [...]

Paraphrase of “The Preacher Ruminates: Behind the Sermon” by Gwendolyn Brooks
Friday, September 7th, 2007

I think God gets lonely being the almighty one in charge with no one else like him. Nobody loves a master, because no one likes getting bossed around, no matter who it is. The hymns and praises show reverence of those who attend church on Sunday. Try picturing God, being so powerful, walking through a [...]

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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

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