ENGL 1000 Study Guide - Onomatopoeia, Quatrain
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Collins adapts the quatrain for of horace in which the lines of the second couplet is indented, looking back to the ancient writings for this form. Lines 1-20 contain an apostrophe (direct address to someone who"s presence is indicated in the poem) Inspiration is a motive, hushed air breathe some softened strain he is using trophies concerning air. From lines 41-52 speakers assures eve she will always enjoy the tributes. The speaker calls to reveal his power, eve is calling on his power to convey his emotions. He is describing eve (the goddess) as chased calm beautiful. The majority of the poems lines are end stopped, he puts punctuation at the end of each lines because he wants you to stop and breath, forcing us to imitate the inspiration. Dim discovered spire , hard to see because its raining/ stormy so its hard to see through the weather.