Anthology poetry form/ structure

Whoso list to hount i knowe where is an hynde- Thomas Wyatt

• Petrachan sonnet

• ABBA + CC (envelope rhyme)

• Reversed structure: consequence then problem

• Irregular iambic pentameter

Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare

• Shakespearean sonnet

• Alternate rhyme then rhyming couplet

• simplistic, monosyllabic

• Iambic pentameter

The Flea - John Donne

• three stanzas

• rhyming couplets

• Iambic tetrameter and pentameter

• three tercets

To his Coy mistress - Andrew Marvell

• Rhyming couplets

• Iambic tetrameter - fast paced

• No form, all stanzas different lengths

• line 11 - 24 is like a Petrachan sonnet

The Scrutiny - Richard Lovelace

• ABABB

• Cinquains

• Iambic tetrameter to iambic trimeter

• No strict form - cavalier

• dramatic monologue

• Filled with end stops

A song (Absent from thee) - John Wilmot

• ABAB - easily put to music

• 4 quatrains

• iambic tetrameter

• satire/ inversion of an ode

The Garden of Love - William Blake

• 3 quatrains

• simple form

• anapestic trimeter

• ABCB

Song (Ae fond kiss) - Robert Burns

• 3 Octaves - broken into two quatrains

• AABB - rhyming couplets

• trochaic tetrameter

She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron

• Regular rhyme - ABAB

• Direct address

• Iambic tetrameter

• Blazon

Remember - Christina Rossetti

• Petrachan sonnet

• ABBA - Octave

• Complicated - sestet, alteration in belief

• Iambic pentameter

• volta

The Ruined Maid - Thomas Hardy

• Dialogue

• Rhyming couplets

• 6 quatrains

• Anapestic tetrameter

• Song like quality

At an Inn - Thomas Hardy

• ABAB/ CDCD - conversational

• 5 octets

• first two stanzas are the opinions of others

• iambic trimeter/ dimeter

La belle dame sans merci - John Keats

• Ballad

• 12 quatrains

• ABCB

• 2 speakers

• the verb changes

• iambic tetrameter/ trimeter

Non sum qualis - Ernest Dowson

• 4 sestets

• irregular rhyme

• cyclical structure

• iambic hexameter

• refrain ‘I am desolate and sick of an old passion’: was changes to am