Question

Read the poem by Anne Bradstreet. What base meter and line length are used?​

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

Anne Bradstreet was a writer of puritan age. She was a puritan. Her way of writing was plain and simple. She used simple sentences and common words. Her plain style contained no classical allusions, the figure of speech, and any Latin quotes. However, now her poems are hard to read, which were considered to be simple at that time. She used inversions in her writings.

She used Rhymes like end rhyme, internal rhyme, approximate, or slant rhyme. Her rhyme scheme was usually ABAB. She used meters, which is regular of stressed and unstressed syllables. She used one meter, usually, which was the iambic meter.

Her writings were marked as artful simplicity, accessible, and didactic intent. Moreover, her poetry considered classicism of the 17th century.

She worked toward the unity of actions. Her poems' central theme was spirituality, theology, a tug of war between faith and disbelieving. Her poetry seemed to be broken.