My favorite from The stanza packet (week three) #1

Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.

On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.

Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche
How statue-like I see thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand,
Ah! Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy Land!

Edgar Allan poe

I really like this poem out of this week's packet. For one it was one of the poems that immediately noticed the author. I remember reading a lot of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems when I was in high school. Even though his poems were always so dark and dimmed they would stick out to me and I would always be so interested in what he was saying. His Poem the Raven had a scary edge to it, He just reminds me of the Stephan King Of Poetry. But i choose this poem Because I Like the form i was in. It had the Five line stanzas, to me it is easier to write in this form. It was similar to The four line stanza where you can use the rhymes schemes like a b a b. Or a b b a. In the five line stanza it gives you freedom to choose anyway you want to rhyme. It ca be like a b b b a or a b a b a, or a a b b b. Poe in this case uses three different Rhyme Scheme to out his poem together, i feel like this was well done. This poem is in iambic tetrameter. I Think is form maybe an easier form to start off writing poetry, it givs you more freedom in your poem.