ENGL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Christopher Marlowe, Eye Rhyme, Simile

• School: Carleton University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1000
• Professor: Susan Birkwood

Document Summary

Poetry: the passionate shepherd and the nymph"s reply. Form: refers to the structure, organization are metrical arrangement (line number, order, reputation, sounds, page formatting, etc. ) Fixed form: prescribe patterns of the line length, rhyme or meter. Meter: recurrence of regular rhythmical patterns in poetry. Scansion: is a system used for analyzing meter. Iambic pentameter: is a group of two syllables where there rst is unstressed and the second is stressed, and there is ve in a line (iam: metrical foot, pentameter: ve feet per line of verse) Trope: a gure of speech (simile, metaphor, personi cation, etc. ) Carpe diem poems: always about men trying to get women into bed. The passionate shepherd to his love by christopher marlowe: Murtle = often used in brides bouquets, a sign of love. Doesn"t quite rhyme (like the eye" rhyme where it looks like it will rhyme but doesn"t sound it) Paints a beautiful and wishful scene where to lover"s can be alone together.