I wheeled a cushioned seat straight in front of the bird, bust, and door (68). ... The repetitive six line stanzas written in iambic octameter keep a strict rhyming scheme: abcbbb, where b is the end-rhyme for Lenore which is consistent throughout the 108 lines of the poem. Enjambment lines are non-existent as each line represents a complete grammatical clause. ... In the ninth and tenth lines, "Eagerly I wished the morrow;- vainly I had tried to borrow/ From my books surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the lost Lenore-, - "morrow- and "borrow- are internal rhymes; "borrow- and "sorrow- ...

• Word Count: 2508
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Allen Ginsberg's Motivation for writing Howl Richard Eberhart, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet of 1966, remarks, "Ginsberg's Howl ushered in a new generation." Many 20th century poets have attested to the freeing effect that Ginsberg's poetry had upon them in the late fifties. But to allege th...

• Word Count: 4095
• Approx Pages: 16
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The entire poem has eight stanza and four lines in each. ... The poem contains eleven lines before the sentence ends with a firm period in the middle of the second to last line in the third stanza. ... Again using pauses created by punctuation (comas and dashes) the lines of the stanza produces the sensation of the act taking place, a hand moving in and out. ...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The more that the happiness of the Nightingale is shown by Keats as it "singist in summer of full fronted ease", the more pain it ultimately brings to the poet. ... They inherently show through lines such as "She dwells with Beauty- Beauty that must die" the inescapable truth of reality, that which Keats himself termed "misery, heartbreak, pain, sickness and oppression" and at the same time edged towards a greater divide in self, time and experience. ...

• Word Count: 2837
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

And is upturned, open, available hand is always in front of you, yet only to ward off and warn, though wide open, incomprehensible. ... This is evident in lines such as "The scent of these armpits is aroma finer than prayer, / This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds," (Song, p. 22) and "My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths." ...

• Word Count: 2891
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School