Compare and contrast two poems written on the subject of romantic love. These poems must have been written at least one hundred years apart. Explain the differences between these poems and making references to both issues and form and content, discuss way
...t go)” is initially regular using the scheme ababcddc, it is because of this measure that the poem has quite a melodic aspect and could almost be vocalised. This is of comparison with “Twice Shy” as the opening pace of the poem is broken, deliberate and hesitant due to the abcbdb rhyme format. The rhythm of short lines ranging from six to seven and occasionally eight syllables is used right through the poem “Twice Shy”, does not keep strictly to this form: “Her scarf à la Bardot, (6 syllables) (a) In suede flats for the walk, (6 syllables) (b) She came with me one evening (7 syllables) (c) For air and friendly talk. (6 syllables) (b) We crossed the quiet river, (7 syllables) (d) Took the embankment walk.” (6 syllables) (b) This is quite unlike “Song (The sweetest love I do not go)”. We can see the rhyme and rhythm of the poem is not altered in each stanza: rigidly keeping to the form of seven syllables and then six. This structure is frequented with the exception of line five of each stanza, which discontinues the rhyme. Line five of each stanza has only five syllables instead of the expected seven then six-syllable line form, which comprises the major rhythm scheme of each stanza. The syllables in each line become irregular thereafter. “Sweetest love, I do not go, / For weariness of thee, / Nor in hope the world can show/ A fitter love for me; / But since that I / Must die at last, ‘tis best, / To use myself in jest / Thus by feigned deaths to die.” (Donne)(??) Quite an obvious similarity between the two poems is that the meaning, an aspect of content, of the ...