Best known for her alarmingly realistic dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood demonstrates similar strengths in this poem: ‘Habitation’ is strikingly real. By not following a structure, it allows the poet to display his ideas without having the follow particular guidelines regarding structure and to instead rely on devices such as repetition and figurative language to emphasize the theme.

One Day I Wrote her Name (Sonnet 75)" by Edmund Spenser One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. When looking at an open form poem consider some of the structural ideas, such as rhyme and the rhythm, and think about how these have been created and why. Hoffman’s complete dedication to his lover is obvious — in comparing her to everything from summer evenings to snow-capped mountains, it seems he cannot stop thinking about her throughout the changing seasons. In contrast, the second stanza focuses on another person, almost as if saying that person will only come to realize his love for the speaker after her death. Looking at the layout of a poem and listening for sound patterns – particularly rhyme and rhythm – helps to identify the form.In ‘Lines Depicting Simple Happiness’, Gizzi’s adoration for his love is clear — however, he avoids overused clichés, meaning the poem is both more personal and less mawkish than other modern love poems.

The poem is structured using trimeter in lines one, two and five and dimeter in lines three and four. Ocean Vuong’s writing invites the reader to slow down and understand every word, and ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ explores themes of desire, impermanence, and craving when in love.Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a renowned Victorian poet who influenced the work of many later English-language poets, including Emily Dickinson.