Power and conflict: Structure of each poem

Cards (18)

  • Ozymandias is written...
    as a sonnet (14 lines)
    in iambic pentameter
  • London is written...
    in iambic tetrameter
    in abab rhyme scheme
    with 4 stanzas with 4 lines each
  • The Prelude is written...
    in blank verse
    in iambic pentameter
  • My Last Duchess is written...
    as a dramatic monologue
    rhyming couplets of iambic pentameter
  • The Charge of the light Brigade is written...
    in dactylic dimeter
    with 6 stanzas (all vary in length)
  • Exposure is written...
    with a abba rhyme scheme (with some half rhymes)
    in iambic hexameter (Except the some lines e.g line 1)
    with 8 stanza with 5 lines in each
  • Storm on the Island is written...
    in iambic pentameter
    in blank verse
    as a dramatic monologue
    using spondee on line 7
  • Bayonet Charge is written...
    in free verse
    with no fixed meter
    with 3 stanzas that differ in length
  • Remains is written...
    as a dramatic monologue
    in free verse
    with quatrains (4 line stanzas)
    The last stanza has 2 lines
  • Poppies is written...
    in free verse
    divided into stanza that vary in length
  • War photographer is written...
    in 4 sestets (stanza written with 6 lines)
    in iambic pentameter
    with a abbcdd rhyme scheme
  • Tissue is written...
    with nine quatrains (4 line stanzas) and a single final line
    in free verse
  • The Emigree is written...
    as a dramatic monologue
    with two octaves (8 line stanza) and one nonet (9 line stazna)
    in free verse
  • Checking out me History is written...
    in non standard english
    in free verse
    with 10 irregular stanzas
  • Kamikaze is written...
    in free verse
    with 7 sestets (6 line stanzas)
  • What is blank verse
    A poem without rhyme, that often use a specific meter (mostly iambic)
  • What is free verse
    poetry that does not rhyme or have a specific meter
  • What is a meter (e.g Iambic pentameter)
    the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse