Imagery, enjambment, caesura, word choice, form and the turn — worked on invented lines of verse, with the structure a poetry answer has to have…
10 questions • Zestly
• In the line: "The harbour holds the boats like coins in a fist.", what does the imagery convey?
• In the lines: "He said he would be back before the light / failed.", what does the enjambment achieve?
• In the line: "She waited. The train did not come.", what does the full stop in the middle of the line (a caesura) do?
• In the line: "The shore was littered with the day's small wreckages.", what does the word choice 'wreckages' suggest?
• In the lines: "Not yet, the doctors said. Not yet, the letters said. Not yet.", what does the repetition do?
• A poem about a marriage is written as fourteen lines with a clear turn in the argument after the eighth line. What form is the poet using?
• In a poem, the first eight lines describe a garden in detail, and the ninth begins: "But none of this was ours.". What does this line do?
• In the line: "The slow sea sucked the shingle down.", what does the repeated sound contribute?
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