AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Paper 2
- Revise: Power and Conflict overview
A group of four lines in a poem.
- Revise: London
- Revise: Remains
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GCSE English Literature · key term
A stanza containing four lines.
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Paper 2
A group of four lines in a poem.
Describe the ending precisely: four quatrains are followed by a three-line stanza and an isolated final line.
Describe the rhythm as ballad-like, supporting this with the quatrains, alternating rhyme and recurring beat rather than assuming all ballads have identical metre.
Part (a): Analyse form and structure as well as individual words. In Duffy, connect the six regular quatrains and flowing enjambment to restrained but persistent desire.
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A stanza consisting of four lines.
A stanza of four lines.
Paper 2
A stanza consisting of four lines.
Revise: La Belle Dame Sans MerciThe poem is a literary ballad of twelve quatrains. Its rhyme scheme is broadly ABCB: the second and fourth lines rhyme, as ‘child’ and ‘wild’ do in stanza 4. In stanza 5, ‘zone’ and ‘moan’ form a full rhyme.
A stanza of four lines.
A stanza containing four lines of verse.
A four-line stanza.
Paper 2
A four-line stanza.
Revise: Love and Relationships overviewA Song and Love and Friendship both use regular quatrains, but one voices personal longing and the other develops an argument. The spoken voices of In Paris With You, I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine and Dusting the Phone can sound informal while remaining carefully organised. Refrains may return to the same phrase with a changed emotional meaning.
A stanza consisting of four lines.
A group of four lines of verse.
Component 1
A four-line stanza or unit within a poem.
Revise: I Shall ReturnThe rhyme pattern divides its argument into three quatrains, or four-line units, and a closing couplet. The first two quatrains explore natural beauty; the third turns to music and cultural belonging; the final couplet explains the emotional need behind the imagined return.