The rhyme scheme is ABBA ABBA because it follows the Petrarchan Sonnet format.
2. Complete a scansion on 3 lines of the poem.
Down to/ the Pu/ritan/ Marrow/ of my/ bones
There's some/thing in/ this ric/hness that/ i hate.
I love/ the look/ austere/ imma/culate/
3. Identify at least 5 images in the poem.
Pearly - visual touch
Bare - visual touch
Cold - touch
Snowy grey - visual touch
Apple blossoms breath - olfactory taste visual
4. Identify the problem (situation) and solution in the sonnet.
The problem is that she can't find a season she likes. The solution is she likes winter because it goes on like
death. It is the only season that goes on.
5. Define the words austere, immaculate, and sheaves.
austere - severe or stern in disposition or appearance; somber and grave: the austere figure of a Puritan
minister.
immaculate - impeccably clean, spotless
sheaves - a collection of items held or bound together.
6. Identify four sound devices in the poem (assonance, alliteration, consonance)
assonance - something in my very blood
consonance - meager sheaves
alliteration - Bare hills, cold silver on a sky of slate,
A thread of water, churned to milky spate
alliteration - Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.
There's something in my very blood that owns
7. What is the speaker's attitude toward the New England winter landscape.
The writer likes the winter landscape because it's the only season where it keeps it's beauty for a long time.
8. What views of life does the poem present?
The view of life that the poem presents is optimistic. it describes the beauty of the seasons as well as the
beauty of the land.