For our review, we read Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd." Following analysis, we covered rhyme schemes, meters, stanzas, and poetry types -- all elements that will be on your poetry test on Monday. I highly recommend you read poems -- online, through Google searches -- to practice identifying types and meter.
One of my rock gods, Scott Weiland, passed away last night, and I have returned to my sixteen-year-old self playing
Purple over and over again, which I plan to do when I get home. So, let's end with some lyrics:
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"Does anybody know how the story really goes/Or do we all just hum along?"
"All I got is time/Got no meaning, just a rhyme."
The last one seem to fit with our Carpe Diem poems this week.
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