Structural devices:
Iambic pentameter = imitates the rhythm of a heartbeat
-> Ozymandias
-> Storm on the island
-> Loose iambic pentameter = Prelude, imitates conversational rhythm
Iambic tetrameter = 4 quatrains Sporadic: Uneven rhythm
-> It means stressed syllable, followed a less stressed syllable, so it’s like a dun dun, Caesura: A lot of punctuation
like a heartbeat Dramatic monologue: Only 1 person speaking, uninterrupted, only 1 s
-> My last Duchess
Quatrain: 4 lines in each stanza Monologue: Only 1 person speaking:
-> London: 4 quatrains symbolise prison bars -> Remains
Cyclical Structure: Starts and ends similarly in terms of topic and what
Romantic Poet: they care about nature, childhood innocence and freedom (means on:
rights of people, not freedom) -> War photographer
-> Ozymandias Irregular Quatrains, Unrhymed:
-> London -> Tissues
-> My Last Duchess Irregular rhythm: not a regular rhythm
-> Emigree
Blank verse: no stanzas
-> Kamikaze
-> Prelude -> Tissues
Free Verse: doesn’t have a consistent pattern, it doesn’t have a rhythm or rhyme
-> Poppies, symbolises her personal experience
-> checking out ma history
Rhyming pattern/rhythmic pattern:
-> Exposure: ABBA pattern
Dactylic diameter: it is 1 syllable stressed, one syllable unstressed
-> Charge of the light brigade
6 Stanzas:
-> Charge of the light brigade
,Key Vocab:
Language devices:
Sibilance: Repeating of the S sound
Ephemeral = meaning not lasting
Transience: Something that comes or
Eurocentrism = European centred
goes , e.g weather changing, people dy
ideas
Cacophony: the repeating of the C soun
In medias res = Starts in the
middle of an action
, Key Themes
Power: Power in Humans Conflict: War, Effect of
Power of Memory: Loss
and Nature Conflict, Reality of Conflict Power of Identi
and Absence
Poems: Poems: Eurocentrism
Poems:
- Ozymandias - Charge of the light brigade - Poppies Poems:
- Prelude - Exposure - War Photographer - Checkin’ ou
- London - Remains - Remains history
- My Last Duchess - Kamikaze - Emigree - Emigree
- Storm on the Island - Bayonet Charge
Iambic pentameter = imitates the rhythm of a heartbeat
-> Ozymandias
-> Storm on the island
-> Loose iambic pentameter = Prelude, imitates conversational rhythm
Iambic tetrameter = 4 quatrains Sporadic: Uneven rhythm
-> It means stressed syllable, followed a less stressed syllable, so it’s like a dun dun, Caesura: A lot of punctuation
like a heartbeat Dramatic monologue: Only 1 person speaking, uninterrupted, only 1 s
-> My last Duchess
Quatrain: 4 lines in each stanza Monologue: Only 1 person speaking:
-> London: 4 quatrains symbolise prison bars -> Remains
Cyclical Structure: Starts and ends similarly in terms of topic and what
Romantic Poet: they care about nature, childhood innocence and freedom (means on:
rights of people, not freedom) -> War photographer
-> Ozymandias Irregular Quatrains, Unrhymed:
-> London -> Tissues
-> My Last Duchess Irregular rhythm: not a regular rhythm
-> Emigree
Blank verse: no stanzas
-> Kamikaze
-> Prelude -> Tissues
Free Verse: doesn’t have a consistent pattern, it doesn’t have a rhythm or rhyme
-> Poppies, symbolises her personal experience
-> checking out ma history
Rhyming pattern/rhythmic pattern:
-> Exposure: ABBA pattern
Dactylic diameter: it is 1 syllable stressed, one syllable unstressed
-> Charge of the light brigade
6 Stanzas:
-> Charge of the light brigade
,Key Vocab:
Language devices:
Sibilance: Repeating of the S sound
Ephemeral = meaning not lasting
Transience: Something that comes or
Eurocentrism = European centred
goes , e.g weather changing, people dy
ideas
Cacophony: the repeating of the C soun
In medias res = Starts in the
middle of an action
, Key Themes
Power: Power in Humans Conflict: War, Effect of
Power of Memory: Loss
and Nature Conflict, Reality of Conflict Power of Identi
and Absence
Poems: Poems: Eurocentrism
Poems:
- Ozymandias - Charge of the light brigade - Poppies Poems:
- Prelude - Exposure - War Photographer - Checkin’ ou
- London - Remains - Remains history
- My Last Duchess - Kamikaze - Emigree - Emigree
- Storm on the Island - Bayonet Charge
