What is the relationship between the poem's structure (stanzas and rhyme scheme) and its meaning? how does the structure organize the poem's ideas? what is the idea found in each stanza?

good hours

i had for my winter evening walk—

no one at all with whom to talk,

but i had the cottages in a row

up to their shining eyes in snow.

and i thought i had the folk within:

i had the sound of a violin;

i had a glimpse through curtain laces

of youthful forms and youthful faces.

i had such company outward bound.

i went till there were no cottages found.

i turned and repented, but coming back

i saw no window but that was black.

over the snow my creaking feet

disturbed the slumbering village street

like profanation, by your leave,

at ten o'clock of a winter eve.

robert frost

i’m writing a memoir and i’ve been given the great suggestion of placing a ‘sub-narrative’ within some of the chapters – sort of, what was going on with me in the grand scheme of things.

i was wondering how to format this so that it is very obvious we are stepping out the of story.

firstly is a change in font from serif to sans workable? i also use dashes for a scene change. was thinking of using a different scene-changer too.

here’s a (shortened) example:

university – or what’s known as ‘uni’ in australia – were some of the best days of my life. where else do you get to potter around in a great location, have very little responsibility, learn lots of things, do lots of things and walk out four years later with a bonus – a degree!

with my university years i had immersed myself into community of intelligent ambitious people. generally everyone had a confidence about themselves. they knew where they were going in life and weren’t threatened by others.

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next normal paragraph continues here…

(sorry couldn’t show the fonts in this comment field)

too much?

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.