... traditional form and the inevitability of change, which overcomes him, is also evoked through the lack of consistent meter, where he shifts between the iambic pentameter, "The bell-beat of their wings above my head", tetrameter, "among what rushes they build" and trimeter, "mirrors a still sky". This variation in metre mirrors the lack on control and ... " emphasises the continuous cycle, illustrating this sense of inevitability of the passage of time. Furthermore, his experimentation with trochaic, 'turning and turning in the widening gyre" and iambic pentameter, "the falcon cannot...

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... structural differences that make it unique and memorable. Rather than writing a fourteen line poem with three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter like every sonnet of the time, Carew writes "A Song" in twenty lines of paired, short couplets in iambic tetrameter. Not only does this structural difference distinguish "A Song" from other poems of the time, but the way Carew ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate