king midas
root "dar"
"hard" "strong" "lasting"
how does the king feel about turning everything to gold
"rather be blind" - upset, doesn't want this
couplet
2 line stanza
tercet
3 line stanza
quatrain
4 line stanza
sestet
6 line stanza
octave
8 line
ex of rhyme scheme
a a a b b a b c c c
stanza
a group of lines, usually separated from other stanza by space
iambic pentameter
a pattern of 5 iambs per line
rhyme scheme
a regular patterns of end rhyme
what does enjambment allow
allows the poet to continue the flow of ideas and also maintain a metrical pattern
foot
basic unit of meter
what orders does the queen give to her gardeners and huntsmen
get rid of everything that isnt yellow "All natural things must go excepting those that are by nature golden. whatever grows the kings touchy color let live"
at the end of the kings speech what request does midas make to the god that gave him the golden touch
line 40 "O Dionysus, change me back to clay!"
i am a tree why?
metaphor king kissed her forehead and turned her to gold
what is the kings speech (stanza type)
octave
iamb
one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
plates of Armour
ore
pure mineral
end rhyme
rhyming words at the ends of lines
the queens speech stanza type
sestent
the princesses song stanza type
terce
meter
the arrangement of stressed an unstressed syllables
enjambment
the continuation of a sentence past a line break flows into the next line
rhyme
the repetition of sounds at the ends of words
exact rhyme
the use of identical sounds love & dove
poetic structure
the way in which a poet organizes a poem
what causes the palace clocks to stop at the beginning of the poem
they become gold when he touches line 2 "time stopped: i flicked it with my fingernail"
what has happened to the pets in the kings household
they've turn to gold and died line 17 "my furry cat is sculpture, my dog dead:
obdurate
unbinding harden
slant rhyme
use of similar sounds that do not match perfectly gone & then
how does the queen view midas and his wish
views him as a fool "I ponder how a king became a fool"
