... with six quatrains which resembles an English sonnet except for the fact that it is twenty-four lines in length and does not end in a couplet. All six stanzas are iambic tetrameter, the first stanza has end stop on the first, second, and fourth lines with enjambment on the third line. The second stanza is crossed rhyme showing end-stop in all ... ...
... they will avoid the mourning forbidden by the poem's title. The poem is broken up into nine stanzas, each stanza being four lines, with an ABAB rhyme scheme and an iambic tetrameter meter. The poem begins with some very descriptive imagery. "As virtuous men pass mildly away/ And whisper to their souls to go/ Whilst some of their sad friends do say ... ...
... he can't catch his love using himself as bait, then she is smarter than he is. Much of this poem is reminiscent of a song. "The Bait- is a quatrain written in iambic tetrameter, while at the same time, Donne uses assonance and consonance variably throughout the poem. In the second stanza, "by thy eyes- is an example of consonance (Donne). While in the ... ...
