engish poetry

• when we two parted: ABAB rhyme scheme, cyclical structure
• walking away : ABACA rhyme scheme
• follower: ABAB rhyme scheme , seamus Heanys father lost his father at a very young age
• eden rock: ABAB rhyme scheme, father dies when he was 7 wrote this when he was 71
• mother any distance : still same town, didnt move far
• the farmers bride: dramatic monologue
• letters from yorkshire: free verse , nothing is regular
• sonnet 29: sonnet, turning point comes at 7 , shows desperation, poem is an extended metaphor of a tree
• porphyrias lover: switch from passive to active< asymmetrical rhynme
• neutral tones: ABBA , cyclical structure
• winter swans: narrative perspective
• before you were mine: women in the 1950s were restricted to the domestic sphere
• climbing my grandfather: one stanza, he was an enviromentalist
• loves philosophy: ABAB, a belief that all things come in pairs
• singh songh: dramatic monoloque, writing phonetically