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“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 or God. I figured Love must be some sort of version of Christ when he says “Who made the eyes but I?”. What seems to be happening in the poem is the author or narrator has come in contact with Christ and is telling him that he is not worthy and ungrateful, that he has sinned. The Christ replies to this as giving him forgiveness. This is a very religious poem but it was difficult for me to find a lot of poetic elements in it.
“Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now” by A.E. Housman
The tone of this poem is very playful. The way it reads is with the a, a, b, b rhyme scheme is very light. There are three stanzas with 4 lines in each stanza (quatrain). There is alliteration in the second stanza, “seventy spring a score”. Housman refers to life and age throughout the poem; I had to look up “three score years and ten” thinking it was his age but it means life span. He talks about his life and the time he has left. There is also assonance in the last stanza: “fifty springs are little room”.
