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WorksheetsStructure and Form in 'Songs of Ourselves' Part 1 vol. 5
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 12mins
What's the rhyme scheme?
How could you just leave me standing?
Alone in a world so cold?
Maybe I'm just too demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied
Why do we scream at each other?
ABCDEFG
ABBACDD
ABABCDC
AABBCCD
a poem with 14 lines, each has 10 syllables
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
sonnet
haiku
elegy
villanelle
poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the writer or speaker; songlike quality or set to a beat
free verse
ballad
lyric poem
sonnet
What is a pause in a middle of a line?
end-stop
comma
consonance
caesura
What is the effect of the caesura's in 'One Art'?
to emphasise the difficulties the narrator faces as she loses things
to reflect on her losses
to emphasise the panic she feels as she loses things
Why and how is this line in 'One Art' different? The art of losing isn't hard to master"
no caesuras as this is the only thing she find easy
no caesuras as this is the Villanelle form
only couplet in the poem
no caesuras as this is a complete image
What could the juxtaposition of the regular form and irregular rhythm in 'My Parents' represent?
Parents rules / boys' freedom
Parents courtesy / boys' discourtesy
parents planned expectations / boys' instinctive living
parents rules / poet's rebellion
In what form is 'For Heidi with Blue Hair'?
narrative poem
lyric
ballad
free verse
What interpretations could you make about the shape of 'Praise Song for my Mother'?
waves - the sea that now separates her from her mother.
giving birth - the umbilical cord is finally cut so that the poet goes out to her future.
cyclical to show the eternal nature of motherhood.
widely spaced to show the distances you must go from your mother to grow up.
How many stanzas are there in 'Elegy for My Father's Father'?
1
2
3
4
