AO2

Question 1

AO2 for “The Human Abstract”

Answer 1

• Rhyming couplets (AABB)
• first stanzas are didactic
• Third stanza- narrative

Question 2

AO2 for “The Tyger”

Answer 2

• Iambic tetrameter “could frame…”
• Hammering beat
• regular, rhythmic meter

Question 3

AO2 for “A Poison Tree”

Answer 3

• quatrains
• rhyming couplets
• pedagogical tone
• 2 colons in first stanza

Question 4

AO2 for “Nurses’ Song”

Answer 4

-ABCB/DEFE (like the sick rose)

Question 5

AO2 for “The Little Black Boy”

Answer 5

• Heroic quatrains
• ABAB (usually affiliated with kids and pure innocence)
• Slightly longer lines suit pedagogical tone (like poison tree)

Question 6

AO2 for “London”

Answer 6

• 4 quatrains (reinforces the control/charterd..even in the poem itself)
• alternative lines rhyming
• repetition

Question 7

AO2 for “The Sick Rose”

Answer 7

• ABCB/DEFE
• Worm and storm are rhymed
• Joy and destroy are rhymed too
• Short, two beat lines
• Ominous rhythm