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Gods Grandeur

Content

• Despite industrialization and the march of time, the earth is still fresh, thanks to God

Style

• Consonance, assonance, alliteration make the rhythm vary
• Sonnet broken up into 2 distinct parts
  • Petrarchan sonnet
  • Thus, he plays with classic structure but does not dismantle it

Quotes

• “Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; / And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil…. / And for all this, nature is never spent”
• Why is everything okay? The poem concludes: ”...the Holy Ghost… / Broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”