Poem Remix

                                        Edmund Spenser's "Amoretti: Sonnet 1"

  Happy ye leaves! whenas those lily hands,

Which hold my life in their dead doing might,

Shall handle you, and hold in love's soft bands,

Like captives trembling at the victor's sight.

And happy lines! on which, with starry light,

Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look,

And read the sorrows of my dying sprite,

Written with tears in heart's close bleeding book.

And happy rhymes! bathed in the sacred brook

Of Helicon, whence she derived is,

When ye behold that angel's blessed look,

My soul's long lacked food, my heaven's bliss.

Leaves, lines, and rhymes seek her to please alone,

Whom if ye please, I care for other none.

1. Dramatic Situation - Poet writing about his love for a women. Its sad, but happy in a sense that its meant for the women to read the poem.

2. Structure of Poem - Sonnet, iambic pentameter

3. Theme - Poet wants to be seen as if he sees his love.

4. Grammar and Meaning -

5. Important images/figures of speech - "Angles blessed look"

6. Important Words in Poem - "Leaves, Lines, and Rhymes" ,"helicon" (sacred site due to greek gods),

7.Tone - Sad from poets perspective, happy if read by the intended reader, His lover/lady

8. Literary Devices - imagery, metaphor,

9. Prosody - the flow of the poem makes it seem as if the poet were speaking from his heart, which in fact he is. The last 2 lines however sum up the whole poem.