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Question: What kind of a poem is "The Fly" by WIlliam Blake!?
Here is the poem
Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away!.
Am not I
A fly like thee!?
Or art not thou
A man like me!?
For I dance
And drink, and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing!.
If thought is life
And strength and breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die!.
well i was wondering if this poem was a sonnet or something else!?
and i was also wondering about rhyme schemes and any one of the following such as
TONE, LANGUAGE, DEVICES, RHYTHM!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
First of all, it's not a sonnet!.!.!.a sonnet has 14 lines, 3 four-line stanzas and a rhymed couplet at the end!.!.!.this is not that!.
The rhyme scheme is abcb, his beat pattern is 3444, 3444, 3444, 3434, 3434!. This is a comparitive poem, there's personification, metaphor, and there is repetition between many of the rhymed lines!. The language is antiquated, but it was actually the vernacular at the time it was written!. (we don't say 'thee' too much anymore)!. The poet is saying that because the fly is alive, they have something in common, especially when fate can act the same to him as his hand to the fly, and that in the end, he is a happy fly, whether he is alive or dead!. This is called "equivalency"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com