Poetry Analysis

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,

Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled

And paced upon the mountains overhead

And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

The purpose of the second stanza is to

• explain what it feels like to fall in love

• remind the listener of all the reasons she was loved

• warn others not to change or they will no longer be loved

• create a sadness and sorrow in the listener

When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. The rhyme scheme is

• ABCD ABCD ABCD

• AABB CCDD EEFF

• ABBA CDDC EFFE

• ABAB CDCD EFEF

He was so old his bones seemed to swim in his skin.

And when I took his hand to feel his pulse

I felt myself drawn in. It was as faint

as the steps of a child

padding across the floor in slippers,

and yet he was smiling.

I could almost hear a river

running beneath his breath.

The water clear and cold and deep.

He was ready and willing to wade on in.

The repetition in the line "the water clear and cold and deep" is an example of

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• alliteration

A rhyme scheme is...

• making plans in a devious way.

• using rhythm as a way to entice the reader.

• the newest Jay Z album.

• a consistent pattern of rhyming throughout a poem.

In poetry, authors separate their thoughts into chunks called...

• paragraphs

• stanzas

• paraphrases

• bites

When reading "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost...

• ...we can infer that Frost is speaking about his own life experiences.

• ...Frost is telling us about a specific moment in his life.

• ...we know that Frost is describing a moment that he made up.

• ...the audience knows that the author is speaking metaphorically.

When we discuss a certain poem who should we say is the narrator? 

• Frost

• the author

• the authors bff

• the speaker

In poetry, the purpose of a period is to...

• add emphasis.

• end a thought and create dramatic effect.

• indicate the anticipation of something.

• combine two like ideas. 

Using a dash in poetry is a form of punctuation that...

• indicates the anticipation of something.

• ends a thought and creates dramatic effect.

• marks a pause, and may build on or clarify something.

• adds emphasis. 

The _________ are like paragraphs in a poem. 

• stanzas

• lines

• rhyme scheme

• figurative language