Elizabeth\’s Blog

“Counting the Mad” by Donald Justice
            This poem has no rhyme and scheme. It has three stanzas and six lines in each stanza. This poem mocks the structure and refrain of the children’s nursery rhyme, “This little piggy…”. Justice tweaks this poem to be very dark. The tone is sinister because it replaces the pigs [...]

“Love” by George Herbert
When I read this poem to myself I found it to be in iambic pentameter. There is an a, b, a, b rhyme scheme with a rhyming couplet at the end of each stanza. There are three stanzas with six lines in each stanza. Love is capitalized and personified as being Jesus [...]