April Inventory (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: W. D. Snodgrass
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Self-discovery, Schools or school life, Human behavior, Colleges or universities, Trees, Life, philosophy of, Seasons, Self-revelations, Spring
The Poem
The sixty lines of “April Inventory” comprise ten stanzas of six lines each. The stanzas consist of a quatrain followed by a couplet, rhyming ababcc. Though W. D. Snodgrass varies the metric foot in many of his lines, the basic structure is iambic tetrameter. Many of the structural features create an interplay between fluidity and disconnection, between pause and flow. All the stanzas are closed, for example, and within all but two of them the concluding couplet is set off from the quatrain by punctuation. These minor divisions create distinct units of...
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