Absalom and Achitophel
What can you say about the form of Absalom and Achitophel?
What can you say about the form of Absalom and Achitophel?
What can you say about the form of Absalom and Achitophel?
The poem is composed in iambic pentameter, where there are five iambs (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable) per line. "Absalom and Achitophel" is written in heroic couplet – iambic pentameter where pairs of lines form a rhyme. There is an AABB rhyming scheme, such as “begin”/ “sin” and “kind”/ “confined” (lines 1 – 4).
Absalom and Achitophel