What are the difference between the william cowper poem The Poplar Field and Philip Larkin poemGoing, Going ?
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A Comparison of The Poplar Field by William Cowper and Binsey Poplars Felled 1879 by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The first thing that is noticeable is that both the poems are about a
group of trees alongside a river. The other general similarity between
the poems is that they are then later cut down and so the writers are
now deprived of their enjoyment in the "cool colonnade".
However there are many differences between the poems. Firstly we
notice that Hopkins uses far more complex rhyming schemes to capturethe reader. He uses an erratic rhyming scheme and irregular stanzas.
The rhyming scheme that Hopkins uses in the first stanza is of a simpler scheme than that of the second stanza. Using letters, I have noted down the rhyming scheme for the first and the second stanza.