“The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks
This poem’s rhyme scheme is generally a, a, b, b with many rhyming couplets but a few lines are in there without rhyme. The title of the poem is somewhat ironic because it is about abortion and the title is “The Mother”. The first line shows personification of the word [...]
“Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall
This poem has eight stanzas and four lines in each stanza making it a quatrain. What makes this poem interesting is how each stanza is in quotations because the author makes it a conversation between a child and mother. The poem is about the bombing of a Church in [...]
1. The world is being compared to a stage- the people are players so maybe comparing the word to a sport played in a stadium
2. Winter is being compared to a race and Spring is coming nearer to winning the race
3. The sun is being compared to a dog, gnawing is being compared to [...]
line breaks in a poem show punctuation
they can determine the mood of a poem
a poem can sound completely different by the way it is read and poems are read in coordination with their line breaks
makes certain lines and phrases stand out
can make the reader focus on something that may otherwise not be noticed as much
“Weary with Toil, I Haste Me to My Bed” by William Shakespeare
This is a one stanza poem with 14 lines in the stanza. There is an a,b,a,b rhyme scheme with a rhyming couplet at the end. Shakespeare gives an accurate description of a person, maybe even an insomniac, tired and trying to go to sleep [...]
“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 [...]
“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. [...]
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. [...]
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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