But his words have also an almost a dreamlike, surrealistic quality to them. ... One might say that feeling might come from his skill in rhyming. ... He describes the night as silent, peaceful, and dark through imagery in the words "the sweep of easy wind and downy flake." Frost then finishes off with a romantic stanza as he rhymes all of the last words this time around. ...
He noted more than once how the sentence sound says more than the words; how tones of voice' can mean more than words. ... "The Tuft of Flowers- does have a strict rhyme scheme of AA, BB, and CC. ... While reading the poem the audience hears something like a song, especially because of the rhyme scheme of AA, BB, and CC. ... The type of consonance that is in "The Tuft of Flowers- is the lines 29 and 30: The butterfly and I had lit upon, Nevertheless, a message from the dawn The underlined words are the consonance in the poem; they do not rhyme however they do sound like they w...
Her poem maintains a peaceful tone by using words like "slowly" and "passed". ... He uses everyday words that we would use in conversation. ... She uses inexact rhymes, dash to create pause and capital letters to emphasis on some of the words in her poem. ... Moreover, this poem is one such rhyming success as we can listen to its sound. The rhyme scheme of the poem is aaba/bbcd/ccdc/dddd. ...
Throughout the poem, images of sexual contact, words relating to sex, and an alliteration that describes the act itself, are presented to help reveal to true meaning of the poem. ... The connotation of the words that the author uses helps portray an act of passion or sexual feeling. ... "Snatch", "dome", "crust", "ice storm" and "limp" all in a way, maybe slang, relate to sexual feelings and these words help convey the meaning of sex. ... All these words have either sneaky definitions or are slang, but all have to do with sex. Frost has bits and pieces of an iambic foot and part that he rh...
Robert Frost uses the literary writing techniques of syntax, repetition of lines, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, rhyme scheme and especially personification in his poems. ... "(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):" (pg. 889) In the first line of Mending Wall "Something there that is that doesn't love a wall," (pg. 889) sounds like the words are in the wrong order. ... In one part of the poem, Frost uses syntax again by putting words in the wrong order, "Broken across it, and one eye is weeping/ From a twig's having lashed across it open." (pg. 894) He doesn't change t...
There are no stanza gaps, rhyming patterns or rhymes. There are however, assonance patterns in the end words of some of the lines (e.g. wall, hill, ball, and wall). ... The use of language is simple and clear and almost all the words are short and made out of two syllables. ...
"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost suggest that the world will end by fire or by ice. Fire being the symbol for desire and passion versus ice that of hatred. Frost identifies the two scientific forms of the world end, by fire or by ice. By means of rhymes and understatements, Frost allows us to see h...
