Sound techniques, including alliteration and onomatopoeia can be used to highlight certain areas where the poet wishes the reader to pay special attention to or to emphasize certain words. ... This view is assisted by the rhyming pattern, or lack of one, evident in the poem. ... In South of My Days, Wright chooses to use no rhyming pattern, instead opting for free verse to construct her meaning. ... Alternatively, Woman to Man, the second of the poems, shows a regular rhyming pattern and rhythm. The lines of the stanzas run on an iambic quadrameter, with four regular beats per line, and the...

• Word Count: 1399
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The poems irony comes out through Bishops use of rhyming, rhythm, syntax, tone, and structure. ... It consists of ABA rhyme scheme where lines 1 and 3 of the first tercet are repeated alternately at the end of each following tercet and end the poem with an ABAA in the final quatrain. This rhyme scheme gives the poem a cheerful beat, which was Bishop's intent to cover up the seriousness of the poem. ... The theme is also implied by this repetition, including the repetitions of the words "disaster" and different forms of "loss". ... She also breaks apart two important words ("gesture/I l...

• Word Count: 799
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In The Soldier, Rupert Brooke, used relatively few, but the strongest used by him was the personification of England as a mother, with the words "England bore", "her day" and "her sights and sounds". ... As for imagery, Rupert Brooke uses calm and peaceful images, to give the reader the image of pastoral and idyllic England, with words and phrases such as "suns of home", "washed by the rivers", "dreams happy as her day" and "hearts at peace, under an England heaven", he also gives the image of a body, with the words "hearts", "pulse" and "mind". While Wilfred Owen, uses stark and horrific imag...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With the use of similes, symbols, meter, structure, rhyme, connotation Rich created her poem, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers. ... In terms of the meter, structure, and rhyme of the poem, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Adrienne Rich utilizes quatrains, consisting of couplets, for a total of six sentences in twelve lines. The rhyme scheme in the poem is very basic: AABB CCDD EEFF, and the rhythm in the three stanzas of the poem isn't a regular beat but varies from line to line as necessary. ... Adrienne Rich's connotation involves the use of carefully selected words and phrases to develop...

• Word Count: 1074
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is the key factor which makes this poem stand out from the rest – because of its open nature and non-complex form that if you tried to search for any meaning or symbolism behind Frost's words, he has almost intentionally left a vast space for interpretation, paving the way for endless views, or perspectives in which this poem can been taken. This poem consists of five stanzas that are all complete with four lines; as well as a simple rhyming scheme of 'ABCB' that is repeated until the end. ... Frost wrote this as a statement – leaving no room for any emotive ...

• Word Count: 943
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate