Coral is far more red than her lips" red; The first syllable of "Coral" would be accented and the second syllable unaccented creating a trochiac foot. The last two words in the phrase "lips" red" could both be accented creating a spondaic foot. ... My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips" red; If snow be white, why then here breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. ... My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips" red. ... The sonnet defines that beauty is in the eye of the...

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• Grade Level: High School

As in Williams" short poem, "The Red Wheelbarrow," where he writes, "so much depends/upon/a red wheel/barrow," so much depends upon "The Yacht's" ungoverned form. ... "In a well guarded arena of open water surrounded by/lesser and greater crafts which, sycophant, lumbering/and flittering follow them, they appear youthful, rare/as the light of a happy eye, live with the grace/of all that in mind is fleckless, free and/naturally to be desired- (13-18) During the opening of "The Yachts," Williams describes the rich and the poor as two entities with no relationship relating each other, oth...

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"In her looking glass my red lips part as though I want to speak " (15-16). ... The poet uses light and romantic colors which appeal to the readers sense of sight including the colors yellow, red, blush and white. ... The enjambments draw the reader's eye from one line to the next in a basic run on sentence, heightening the effect of suspense. ...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School