Internal rhyme

because its introduces the comparison of love, something positive, to a rose, which creates a pleasing image for the reader and causes them to feel cheerful. The poem, which incorporates lyrics of folk songs and was originally set to music, uses an ABCB rhyme scheme for the first two stanzas, and ABAB for the latter two. The consistent rhyming gives the poem an upbeat flow which reveals the speaker’s emotions as well as evoking emotion from the reader. This upbeat rhythm is exemplified in lines…

false. The last line pushes the conflict even further with another parenthesis; the speaker struggles with writing the phrase “though it may look like disaster” because it truly is a travesty. Additionally, the poem generally uses a three-line ABA rhyme scheme, but this pattern is broken in the final stanza. This leads to a few observations which sustainedly maintain the main conflicts and the author’s and speaker’s stances. Initially, we can see that lines of “master” and “disaster” (which are…

The poem is written in heroic couplets, which usually use a masculine rhyme, emphasising the dramatic nature of the monologue and making a series of logically progressing statements and ideas. The second couplet sets the tone of the poem by creating imagery of a scene of destruction through the use of the adjective ‘levelled’…

Most of today’s society has had an experience like the character in Carolyn Kizer’s poem “Bitch”, by meeting an ex-significant lover/partner when visiting a local place. The awkward first moment while making eye contact with one another just like a past experience, often creates a challenge about the appropriate way to act. Especially, if the past experiences was not pleasant and/or was full of male dominance. Carolyn Kizer shows this in her poem through the theme, which is, you should never…

African American woman. Her poem spoke of the United States as a place where disparate elements of history could come together and describes how all human are more alike than different. This particular piece by Maya Angelou does not follow a consistent rhyme scheme throughout the entire poem; majority of it is written in blank verse to capture her thoughts. She uses personification to celebrate their sense of similarity, unity, and human solidarity. Maya Angelou also examines role expectations,…

Throughout many of his poems, especially during the uprising of World War I and the peak of Ireland’s tension with Great Britain, William Butler Yeats often voiced his opinions on the state of Ireland and its people. In W.B. Yeats’ poem, “September, 1913”, he emphasizes and expresses these opinions. Yeats stresses how nationalism can fuel Ireland, yet criticizes Ireland’s people for their greed and overwhelming self-interest. In “Easter, 1916”, though, Yeats shifts away from the people of…

The poem "Annabel Lee", by Edgar Allan Poe, shows the speaker's way of coping with the death of his beloved, which is displayed as obsession towards her and his judgment of the holy as guilty. The speaker justifies his obsessed love to Annabel Lee as stronger than any extraordinary force, and presents the holy as disgraced and malice for trying to separate them. First, the repetition of words, phrases and sounds emphasizes the speaker's obsession towards Annabel Lee. Her name is mentioned seven…

People use different communicative forms to show their thoughts and feelings to the others. The most commonly used form of expressing one’s feelings and emotions is writing especially poetry. Many poetry writers' works gain authority, and can be considered as literary canonical works, thus, these authors become literary canonical figures. But what does the term ‘literary canons’ mean? Literary canons are a collection of literary works and authors approved by academic scholars, having high…

These thoughts have been created because of past experiences like isolation. The fact that he is trying to make friends with a snowman shows his severe desperateness and also the fact that he can relate with the snowman is just sad. There is an internal rhyme in the quote, “slice of ice”. The assonance in the quote creates a gradual melodic sound because of the way you say it, this adds to the sinister comparison. The comparison of him and the snowman displays his lack of compassion but also his…

E. E. Cummings is an extraordinary poet who is well known for his use of different structures that convey his theme in his writing. Cummings makes a name for himself by exploring new, unique ways and styles of writing unknown to most people. Cummings commonly uses themes in relation to love, nature, and experiences in his past. In Cummings’s poems, structure and theme go hand in hand. He uses different structures such as the use of lowercase letters, unusual punctuation, misspelled words and…