Innocence (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Traherne
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Children, Sin or Original sin, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism
The Poem
“Innocence” is a medium-length poem with sixty lines divided into five parts, each containing three rhyming four-line stanzas (quatrains). It follows an intricate metrical pattern and rhyme scheme. The first three lines of the beginning stanza of each part are in iambic pentameter, while the shorter fourth line is in iambic tetrameter. These first stanzas rhyme aabb. The second stanzas in each of the five parts of the poem are entirely in iambic tetrameter and rhyme abab (words such as “love” and “remove,” which occur in the second stanza of...
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