Structure

• If

  4 stanzas - 8 lines each

  Rhyme scheme - AAAA (only in 1st stanza) ABAB (meant to sound balanced: like an older person giving advice to someone younger

  Written in iambic pentameter
• Prayer Before birth

  8 stanzas of varying length, irregular rhyme scheme

  enjambed - shows changes in speed

  free verse - makes us speed up - chaos of outside world - child is passionate about world

  dramatic monologue - perspective of unborn child
• Blessing 


  4 stanzas - irregular length to show irregular length of time without water

  Enjambment - to show flow of water
• Search For My Tongue

  3 stanzas - irregular

  Gujarati section - sonnet
• Piano

  3,4 line stanzas

  Uneven length but regular rhyme scheme - couplets: gives structure to emotion
• Half-Past Two


  Free verse poem made up of tercets (3 line stanzas) lends the poem some structure, much like all the "time" the boy knows helps him organize his day.
• Hide and Seek


  One continuous stanza, 27 lines with a first and second-person point of view

  No regular rhyme scheme - free verse

  Assonance throughout the poem

  Occasional rhyming at the beginning that pulls the poem together
• Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds


  Sonnet - one 14 line stanza

  ABAB rhyme scheme - abab cdcd efef gg

  iambic pentameter (10 syllable lines) - mimics heartbeat, love

  ends w/ a rhyming couplet
• Poem at Thirty-Nine

  free verse - fairy tale like

  6 irregular stanzas

  lyrical + free - shortness of the poem infuses a sense of loneliness and grief in the poem

  no rhyme scheme
• La Belle Dame sans Merci 


  12, 4 line stanzas

  Ballad - to tie the form to mythic content

  Regular rhyme scheme - ABCB
• War Photographer 


  rigid, unlike poems content

  4,6 line stanzas

  Regular rhyme
• The Tyger

  AABB - lullaby/nursery rhyme

  6,4 line stanzas

  circular poem
• Remember

  Sonnet (ends in rhyming couplet, 14 lines) - love poems

  Iambic pentameter

  First half of the poem follows a standard Petrarchan sonnet pattern
• My Last Duchess


  1 stanza - 56 lines

  The poem consists of the Duke's dramatic monologue addressed to an unnamed envoy.
• Half-Caste


  4 irregular stanzas

  Refrain 'explain yourself'

  Rhythm similar to Caribbean street poetry

  Not as many technical features as other poems as meaning is so explicit,

  intended focus - not the analysis of the features
• Do not go gentle into that good night

  6 stanzas

  controlled structure - can't control death but he's trying to control his emotions