The four poems I am comparing are: 'Long Distance" (rony Harrison), "The sick Equation" (Brian Patient. "This Be The Verse" (Philip I.arkin) and "I.ookin~ For Dad" (Briwi Patton).

“The Sick Equation” has a rhyme scheme olABAB. It is not used to its kill potential hut there are few rhyming words like Pain mid Cane Refute and Dispute etc. rho amount oflines in a verse varies at the start but smooth out, like the rhyme pattern. towards the end ofthe poem.

think this poem is a very good poem, however I dkt rot enjoy this poem as it is too sad and the fact that it is a true story makes it worse.

“Long Thstanee” is a poem about a boy wishing that his lather would lbrgct the past. Afler his mother died his fitther did things like ‘put hot water bottles her <de ofthe bed” ‘went to renew her transport pass”, things that happen in nomad every day life when the person is still alive. Tony Harrison did not appreciate the big loss his father suffered arid didn’t realise it would aIfect the rest ofhis lilt, lie says about his dad always giving it hnlfan hour before someone caine round so he could clear away all the evidence of this:

“[It’d put you offan hour to give him time

To clear away her things and look alone”. Afler this Tony llanison finds him self in the same position as his lhther is now dead and on his new phone is a “disconnected rLImbcr I still call”, the telephone numhcr ofhis dead father.

“long Distance” by Tony Hanison has a rhyme pattern ofABAI3, he uses this very well and every line in this poem rhymes- 1hc verses each have the same amount of lines.

“Looking for dad” is a poem about a boy bclieving that he is the reason that his mum and dad split up, he thinks they split up because he didn’t TIDY UP YOUg ROOM’. It is again a very sad poem. Alter this his parents lost interest in his room and seemed more interested in arguing together: “They- seemed more intent, on a domestic argument.” He says that his dad stopped shouting at him and “screeched at mum> until one morning this dad had “simply vanished”. the night alter this Brian Patter dreamt that his “Dad was hidden beneath the things I had been given”, he dreamt that his Dad was hidden honeaththe things he had not tidied up inhis room. He then he goes onto describe the things he is cleaning ofthe Poor “old robots” “Old toy cars” etc. He also remembers “How he’d seemed to be urThappier than even nie. At the end ofthis poem he knows that ‘91 was not my room that filled Mum and Dad