Comparing_The_Burnig_Babe_And_I_Syng_Of_A_Mayden

Comparing The Burnig Babe And I Syng Of A Mayden Using the literary and linguistic concepts and approaches of The Burning Babe and I Syng of a Mayden, this essay will be comparing the context style, and structure of the poems by looking at the development of ideas and themes, sound, choice of vocabulary, poetic and grammatical features, form, rhythm and rhyme, and the point of view they are written from. The Burning Babe is written in a ballad style/structure using 4 line stanzas with a regular rhythm of four strong syllables in a line followed by three strong syllables in the next line, for example, in the first and second lines of the poem Southwell writes ‘As I in hoary winter’s night Stood shivering in the snow.’ Again, it is very typical of a ballad to have such a heavy and regular beat, as is the occurrence of the supernatural event and the conversation between poet and apparition. The I Syng of a Mayden poem, however has a different style/structure to that of The Burning Babe though I believe that it is still in the style of a ballad as it uses the same stanza style of four lines and uses a repetition of the words ‘As dew in Aprylle burning, babe, very, poem, mayden, syng, about, within, though, reader, linguistic, language, jesus, features, different, both, based, ballad, upon, style, shown, religious, poet, poems, mankind, line, connotations, apparition, again, written, whereas, virgin, teachings, regular, mary