Form And Structure

Question 1

QuickDraw

Answer 1

Free verse

- structure (enjambement and caesuras) is used to highlight key phrases, e.g. You’ve wounded me

Question 2

Hour

Answer 2

Sonnet

- variation of the sonnet form shows imperfection and underlying tension in the relationship

Question 3

The Farmer’s Bride

Answer 3

First person monologue

Question 4

To His Coy Mistress

Answer 4

First person dramatic monologue

• first stanza - flattery to entice her
• second stanza - pressure/threaten her
• third stanza - instructs her, describes his preferred outcome

Question 5

Sonnet 43

Answer 5

Petrarchan sonnet

• octet - links love to political/religious ideas
• sestet - links feelings to previous experiences

Question 6

Praise Song for my Mother

Answer 6

Praise song - eulogy of someone’s life, traditional African form
- used to explore what her mother means to her (and address her at the end)

Question 7

The Manhunt

Answer 7

Rhyming cuplets

- show the journey across his body which is an extended metaphor for the discovery of their marriage

Question 8

Ghazal

Answer 8

Ghazal

- rhyming couplets to accentuate the different aspects of love e.g. Warmth or mystical

Question 9

Sister Maude

Answer 9

Traditional ballad (tells a story)
- final lines act as a Volta turning direct to Maude to show her fate

Question 10

Born yesterday

Answer 10

Free verse

- structure creates suspense and bathos

Question 11

Sonnet 116

Answer 11

Sonnet
- first and second quatrain - unchanging nature of love
- third quatrain - lasting nature
Constant rhythm and rhyme shows constancy of love