Episode 54: Carl Phillips, To Autumn
Poetry For All
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Octave and Cestet, if Wild, I Was Once More Gentle
If it's an Ode, where's the third section? And it may be implied in the way this poem finishes. If you look at the number of lines in the first section, I think there are 14. 11 is to 14, almost exactly what? 8 is to 6. Proportionally, this poem is exactly the design of a sonnet. So he's moving back and forth between the Ode and the sonnet.
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