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“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 from the nursery rhyme with a different stories of people who have gone mad. There is a terminal refrain being “And this one cried No No No No All day long”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats
This poem has an a, b, a, b rhyme scheme however, the a’s are slant rhymes. I thought this was an interesting object to write an ode to. Since an ode is supposed to be praising something and an urn represents death which is not something that is usually praised. The diction is somewhat hard to understand. There is alliteration and repition such as “of marble men and maidens overwrought”, “heart high”, “beauty is truth, truth beauty”, “More happy love! More happy, happy love”.
