Notes

Digging
s1 Rhymed Iambic Tetrameter Couplet (AA)
s2 Loose Iambic Pentameter (BBB)
s3 Free Verse (VOLTA)

Churning Day
Mixed Loose Iambic Pentameter with Trochees
Iambic Pentameter (Lines 1,6,19,27)

Personal Helicon
5 Quatrain Stanzas of Loose Iambic Pentameter
Full rhymes (Lines 1,3); Half rhymes (Lines 2,4): alternating per stanza: SH's exploration of negative capabilities + new forms of poetry to convey sensory Imagery (ARS POETICA)
Alexandrian last line (12 syllables): determination to seek out darker aspects of himself in 2nd collection: door into the dark
foxgloves: highly poisonous plant w beautiful flowers (Heaney's delve into NEGATIVE CAPABILITIES)
rats: scaresome aspects of the self (darker parts of Heaney's self-exploration)

Death of a Naturalist
Bipartite Divisions: 21 and 12 Lines
Iambic Pentameter with ENJAMBMENT
Blank Verse (Line 31,32,33): ultimate discomfort w frogs/ inability to return to position of innocence once acquiring knowledge of sexual pleasures

Blackberry-Picking
Bipartite Divisions of 16 and 8 lined sections: desire to return to nostalgic childhood: off-kilter lyrical quality of nursery rhyme
Iambic Pentameter (AABBCC)
Half-Rhymes (Lines 1,2 and 17,18) and Full-Rhymes (Lines 3,4 and 23,24): emphasis to full-rhymes which generate anticipation of blackberries bursting
HEROIC COUPLET (last 2 lines): maturation past VOLTA and knowledge of decaying artifice of sexual sin

Early Purges
7 Tercets
Loose Iambic Pentameter (Cyclical nature of death & life + Cycle of SH mimicking Dan Taggart's utilitarian cruelty)
ABA CDC EFE rhyme scheme (w the meter): undercut serious traumatic subject matter of death of innocent animals, emphasizing young SH's innocence + shocking nature of scarring visceral death

Mid-Term Break
7 Tercets w lack of rhyme scheme (segmented clinical depictions (SH's detachment))
line 1: Iambic Pentameter (hypercactlectic w one extra syllable)
line 2: trochee, spondee, iamb, phyric, iamb
line 4: phyricc + trochic tetrameter

Follower
Typographical variations through INDENTATIONS (S1,4,5,6) in 6 Quatrains
Iambic Tetramater, alternating 8 & 9 syllables (S1,2): Father's skill @ ploughing field with expertise and 8 syllables (tetrameter s3,4,5): mimic Father's laboured breathing and reflect physical toil + sensory imagery
Lack of meter past VOLTA (S6) highlights condescension toward father
ABAB CDCDC EFEG HIHI rhyme scheme, half-rhymes & full-rhymes: emphasis to SH's father's expertise and skill @ maneuvering horse-drawn plough

The Wife's tale
Loose Blank Verse with Hypercactlectic Lines (Line 9): extra syllable asserts HUSBAND's DOMINANCE and Cactlectic Line: ominous atmospere QUICKENS reader's pace (Line 2)
Full-rhyme of "ease" and "trees" euphonic effect: languid and tranquil acceptance of gender and societal roles

Field Of Vision
Iambic Pentameter, Cacatelectic Lines (Line 2): Aunt May's entrapment and immobility, both physical (wheelchair) and independent female in a machismo culture (aunt may represents marianismo culture), Hypercactelectic Lines (Line 1,3): freedom aunt May gets from viewing Nature + Heaney's expanded field of vision to widen his ARS POETICA and change SH's 3 spheres of selfhood (hidden self, artist, Ireland) and eschew convention in poetry + sycamore tree as symbol of clarity of vision + intensity of Aunt May (hyperbole)