Assonance

enjambment. As well as euphony. Euphony was displayed in the poem for including many “s” sounding words for a soft soothing sound throughout the poem. In the poem, vowel sounds were used with repetition in each stanza. This structural devices is called assonance. In conclusion, sound and structural devices help support the theme by showing how calm and collective the narrator is about the…

The poem, "Ode To You," by Carl Sinclair is about someone, which can be inferred is a woman, who has been hurt by someone else. She is missing having this person in her life, reminiscing on their past and wishing that they will be together again. Subsequently, the speaker of this ode is the woman who the poem is about; so, it is in first person. Moreover, in this ode, there are two main conflicts occurring. The first one is an internal conflict that the narrator is going through with herself,…

I have chosen the poem “I do not love thee” by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton. This poems seems to be talking about someone the author knows and likes. The author, Ms. Norton seems to be saying that while she doesn’t feel true love for the subject of the poem, she enjoys their company. She even admires the person and misses them while they are gone. For the most part, I didn't find most of the poem hard to understand. However, at the very end of the poem it says “vet. Alas” and I’m not…

Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mirrors’ was written two years before she had committed suicide and the context behind this was mainly due to her chronic depression. On the other side of the spectrum, ‘Morning Song’ was written and composed in dedication to her newborn daughter, Frieda. ‘Mirrors’ records the life of a woman staring at herself through reflection the clear and uninfluenced eyes of a mirror, there is a consistent pessimistic view about revealing one’s true self. ‘Morning Song’, however is filled…

There is evident assonance in every other line, that creates the simple, but effective, rhyme scheme, giving it the rhythmic flow of a band geek’s poem. He has the simple rhyme scheme A, B, A, B, C, D, C, D, etc. His lines go back and forth between nine syllables and six syllables…

The remarkable and an ambiguous poem, “Tarantella,” by Hilaire Belloc is based off of a traditional folk dance that originated from southern Italy. Having couplets, assonances, and consonances helps the poem to have an easy flow of reading and gives it the unique style of the Hilaire Belloc. The dance and music is very upbeat just like the first stanza of this poem and the frequent use of commas and the fluctuation of long and short lines epitomize the pace or rhythm of this stanza on whether it…

Amanda Ford Ms. Drosdick Language Arts, per. 6 12/26/17 Roald Dahl. 26 years after his death, and almost everyone knows the name Roald Dahl. In life he was nicknamed the children's champion, and for good reason. His wonderfully fantastical children's books have fueled the imaginations of generations of children; If you've never read Roald Dahl, then you've never had a childhood. Although more well known for his books, his poetry is no less impressive, and this is proved by "Television", a piece…

any specific rules, however, it does have a rhyme scheme of AA BB CC DD EE. It is not a sonnet, there aren’t any stanzas, given that the poem is written in one block, and there isn’t any alliteration. My composition doesn’t have any line break, assonance nor consonance. In my poem many of different forms of imagery are portrayed. On the fourth line, tactile imagery is presented with the phrase: “ your warm hand on my cheek”. By reading this sentence I can picture the feeling of someone’s…

goes back to when Owen discussed the soldier dying from the gas attack therefore the phrase “fourth-corrupted lungs”. This is in relation to the gas that caused his lungs to fill with blood which ultimately cost him his life. The word “gargling” is an onomatopoeia used to show the pain and despair the solider was in before he died. Similes are used in the next line to convey just how evil and un necessary war is. The first one is “Obscene as cancer”, here he is comparing war to cancer and…

An Explication of “Death” by Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson’s poem “Death” is structured in quatrains, four line stanzas. It is in Iambic meter, so each foot has one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The first and third lines of each quatrain have eight syllables, and the second and fourth have six. This means the first and third lines of each stanza consist of four feet, so those lines are in Iambic tetrameter. The second and fourth lines have three feet each, making them…