Thursday, 19 November 2015

Echo

The narrator is addressing thoughts to someone who they can't reach or is lost

Repitition - Convincing themselves that it happened? Trying to relive it?
Punctuation - syntax is complex - adds pauses and slows down the poem
Meter -
  • First line of each stanza - 10 syllables - 5 beats (pentameter) - mostly iambic but also trochees to add emphasis
  • 4th line - tetrameter
  • 5th line - dimeter
Rhyme - traditional rhyme scheme
End - each stanza ends in a complete way  which brings each paragraph to a conclusion

Comparisons
Remember
  • Both strong rhyme and rhythm
  • Lyric poem
  • Similar subject matter
Song
  • Both are about death and love and separation
  • Difference - song is about dying and what she leaves
  • Lyric poems
  • About forgetting - memory doesn't matter
Shut Out
  • Separation and desperation and distance
  • Both have doors/gates

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