Find, write or indicate the following elements in the sonnet below: a. The pattern of iambic pentameter
b. At least one spondee and one trochee
c. Enjambments, elisions and sibilance, euphony, cacaphony
with explanations (50 words maximum for each)
d. An explanation of the narrative content according to each quatrain,
e. g., explain quatrain 1, of quatrain 2, 3 and couplet (4 x 150 words)
e. An overall analysis of the narrative embedded in the sonnet,
e. g., what does the poet say literally and figuratively? (400 words)
Use underlining, brackets and slashes to indicate the pattern of iambic pentameter
along with the poetic devices. Please note: this sonnet is not about climate change,
Episodes of long silences echo
Against stone plinths presaging deep'ning night.
Molecules of physics float indigo,
Souls of old alchemists appear in light.
Silhouettes of the ebullient dead busy
Themselves gazing at us to understand,
with much amusement, care and wonder, while
Wand'ring among the campos' drowning land.
"a campo is a public square