When reading the poem "The Bait- by John Donne, one may initially interpret the poem to be one about fishing. Overall, this poem could have a lot of meaning to a fisherman. "The Bait- speaks of all the things that fishermen love about the sport. The first stanza sets ones mind in a ...

• Word Count: 751
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Rather than writing a fourteen line poem with three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter like every sonnet of the time, Carew writes "A Song" in twenty lines of paired, short couplets in iambic tetrameter. ...

• Word Count: 1528
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the poem "I sat belonely" the general rhyme pattern is that of standard crossed rhyme. John Lennon, the author wrote this entire sonnet in crossed rhyme with six quatrains which resembles an English sonnet except for the fact that it is twenty-four lines in length and does not end in a couplet. A...

• Word Count: 1149
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School