1. Romantic Poets of the 19th Century
The stanzas are made up of interlinking three-line units with the rhyme scheme ababcbcdc, continuing this to the end of the stanza: O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, (a) Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead (b) Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, (a) Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, (b) Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, (c) Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed (b) The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, (c) Each like a corpse within its grave, until (d) Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow (c) H...
Exposure' is also an example of Owen's experiment with rhyming schemes and sounds. True to the modernist endorsement of innovative methods of writing, Owen develops an amazing technical skill with the use of assonance and para-rhyme (Purkis 118), partly inverting the dominant tradition of poetic diction. ... Coupled with the rhyme style: knive us'- nervous' , silent' - salient', the result is that the reader is left on edge, aware of the tension the soldiers are experiencing . ... It is interesting to note though, that Owen at the end of this description of ...
Major difference in the language used in the two poems is that in The Tyger Blake uses much more diverse words than in The Lamb. The simple rhymes and the regular rhythm stress the simple ideas that are implied, but "though many believe that Blake's poems are written in a simple language, no one can deny the presence of deep meaning" (Pakzadian and Moinzadeh 114 ). The language of the child is simple and is a sign for his innocence, while the variety of words used by the adult shows his experience and change of understandings of the world and God. ... In other words, as a child...