Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 9 AIL 0833 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Structure Across Stanzas
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The idea
In a poem of many stanzas, ask what each stanza adds and whether the order could be changed. If it could not, something is developing; if it could, the poem is a set of variations. That single question characterises most multi-stanza structures quickly.
In practice
Could the stanzas be reordered.
Where people slip
One question sorts the structure.
Your place on the trail
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