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“A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public(k) Employment” by Anne Bradstreet is a love poem, written in heroic couplets, except for the final couplet, which is in iambic tetrameter. Heroic couplets are two-line groupings in iambic pentameter with an “aa bb cc…” rhyme scheme. Iambic describes a way to write and read poetry according… Continue reading A Letter to Her Husband Analysis by Anne Bradstreet

“Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 10, 1666” (sometimes attributed a longer title: “Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our house, July 10th. 1666. Copied Out of a Loose Paper.”) by Anne Bradstreet is a poem written in couplets in iambic tetrameter. The rhyme scheme is “aa bb cc…” This is… Continue reading Verses upon the Burning of our House Analysis by Anne Bradstreet 2022

“The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet is in extended metaphor in heroic couplets—two-line groupings in iambic pentameter with an “aa bb cc…” rhyme scheme. Iambic describes a way to write and read poetry according to stressed and unstressed syllables. An iamb is a unit of poetic meter, or a foot, consisting of one… Continue reading The Author to Her Book Analysis by Anne Bradstreet