Browning's Duke ends by sending the listener down to meet 'The Count your master.' Whom has the Duke been addressing?

Dickinson opens, 'Because I could not stop for Death - / He kindly stopped for me -.' What speaking situation is established?

Wordsworth begins, 'Five years have past; five summers, with the length / Of five long winters!' What is the speaker's situation?

In 'Ozymandias,' the speaker hears of 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert.' What is the speaking situation?

Keats opens, 'Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time.' Who is addressed?

Donne's speaker snaps, 'For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.' What situation does the line imply?

Marvell begins, 'Had we but world enough and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime.' What situation drives the argument?

Whitman writes, 'Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt.' Whom does the speaker chiefly address?

Tennyson's Ulysses says, 'It little profits that an idle king, / By this still hearth...' What is his situation?

Blake's speaker asks, 'Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye...' What role does the speaker take?

Frost begins, 'Whose woods these are I think I know. / His house is in the village though.' What situation does the speaker enter?

Arnold writes, 'The sea is calm to-night' and later, 'Ah, love, let us be true / To one another!' Who is the speaker addressing?

After 'summer's lease hath all too short a date,' Sonnet 18 turns: 'But thy eternal summer shall not fade.' What does 'But' do?

Sonnet 130 lists false comparisons, then turns: 'And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare.' What does the turn do?

Wordsworth complains, 'The world is too much with us,' then cries, 'Great God! I'd rather be / A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn.' What turns?

Milton's speaker murmurs about serving God, then 'Patience, to prevent / That murmur, soon replies.' What does this turn accomplish?

Donne's 'Batter my heart' turns to 'Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain, / But am betrothed unto your enemy.' What changes?

In 'I heard a Fly buzz,' the expected 'King / Be witnessed - in the Room' is interrupted: 'There interposed a Fly -.' What does the turn do?

Keats ends 'When I have fears' with 'on the shore / Of the wide world I stand alone, and think / Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.' What happens?

Shelley's ode pleads, 'Make me thy lyre,' then asks, 'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?' What does the final turn do?

After describing Kubla's dome, Coleridge shifts: 'A damsel with a dulcimer / In a vision once I saw.' What does the turn introduce?

Frost's woods invite lingering, but the stanza turns: 'But I have promises to keep.' What does this turn do?

Sonnet 73 moves through season, twilight, and dying fire before the couplet 'This thou perceiv'st...' What does that form do?

Milton's sonnet withholds its answer until 'They also serve who only stand and wait.' What does the delayed closure do?

Thomas's villanelle repeats 'Do not go gentle' and 'Rage, rage...' What does the required return of refrains do?

Dickinson's 'Because I could not stop for Death' uses hymnlike common meter. How does that form affect the death journey?

Pope closes a thought: 'Hope springs eternal in the human breast; / Man never is, but always to be blest.' What does the closed couplet do?

Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind' uses chained terza rima while invoking 'O wild West Wind.' What does the form help create?

In 'My Last Duchess,' rhymed couplets often run through enjambed speech. What effect does that form create?

Keats's ode returns from imaginative flight: 'Forlorn! the very word is like a bell / To toll me back from thee to my sole self!' What does the ode form allow?

Gray's elegy opens, 'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.' How does the regular stanzaic movement shape the meditation?

Blake asks, 'Little Lamb, who made thee? / Dost thou know who made thee?' What does the question-and-answer song form do?

Frost opens, 'Something there is that doesn't love a wall, / That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it.' What does the break after 'wall' do?

Williams writes, 'so much depends / upon // a red wheel / barrow.' What does the severe lineation do?

Dickinson writes, 'I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - / The Stillness in the Room.' What do the dashes around 'when I died' do?

Hopkins begins, 'Glory be to God for dappled things -' and then catalogs examples. What does the dash after 'things' do?

Whitman writes, 'I celebrate myself, and sing myself, / And what I assume you shall assume.' What does the line movement accomplish?

Pope's line 'To err is human; to forgive, divine' hinges on a semicolon. What does that midline pause do?

Donne begins, 'Busy old fool, unruly Sun, / Why dost thou thus...' What does the line break after 'Sun' help do?

Shakespeare writes, 'Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.' What does the pause after 'choirs' emphasize?

Hopkins closes, 'It is the blight man was born for, / It is Margaret you mourn for.' What does the rhyme do?

Poe opens, 'Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.' What does the internal rhyme and repetition of sounds create?

Tennyson writes, 'The moan of doves in immemorial elms, / And murmuring of innumerable bees.' What do the m and n sounds do?

Keats opens autumn with 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.' How does the sound pattern matter?

Coleridge writes, 'The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, / The furrow followed free.' What does the alliteration help convey?

Blake asks, 'What the hammer? what the chain, / In what furnace was thy brain?' How does the sound serve the image?

Milton lists 'Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.' What does the sound of the list do?

Yeats hears 'lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore.' What does the l-heavy music do?

Tennyson begins, 'Break, break, break, / On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!' What does the repetition of 'break' do?

Whitman repeats, 'Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, / Out of the mocking-bird's throat...' What does the repetition create?