“When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” By John Milton
John Milton engages in a rhyme pattern and uses Biblical references with verbalism of archaic language that brilliantly completes this Petrarchan sonnet. The elements of meter, rhythm, and rhyme are consecutively parallel with the element of foundation. As a Petrarchan sonnet, the meter is iambic pentameter that guides itself to the definite rhythm this poem consists of. The rhyme pattern that Milton portrays is in the form of ABBAABBACDECDE, with the octet rhyming separately from the sestet. All of these elements collaborate reflecting in the octet and how ‘the one, who took away his light,’ now expects labor from him. In the sestet, Milton illustrates the Lord's generous response to his servant. The one structural difference lies in the division of the octet from the sestet, because the speaker changes here as well, making this poem exceptional in the dynamic of announcer and audience.
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Title: Milton
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