While analogy serves the more practical purpose of explaining a thought process or a line of reasoning however other analogies simply offer an explanation for clarification rather than a substitute argument. ... In Old English, each line is divided by a pause, and the stressed syllables in the first half-line alliterate with those in the second half-line. ... End-rhymes are words at the end of successive lines that rhyme with each other: Internal rhymes are rhyming words within a line. ... Meter is also determined by the number of feet in a line. A line with five feet is called pentameter...

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In line three, the speaker questions, "You may have met him? ... The question mark in the middle of the line functions as a caesura that interrupts the rhythm. ... The first line of the poem is iambic followed by four consecutive lines of anapestic meter. ... As he comes to the realization that he is waiting in line behind a poisonous snake for the water trough, the spondee in line 23 interrupts his thoughts, awakening the reader with "he must be killed," a line that is impossible to read without the authoritative voice the stressed syllables demand. ... The hesitation in the p...

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The speaker remains unconvinced and mischievously presses the neighbor to look beyond the old-fashioned folly of such reasoning. ... In any case, there is something about "walking the line" and building it, mending it, balancing each stone with equal parts skill and spell that made Frost write this, kind of, mysterious poem. ... Even as he makes a choice, the speaker knows that he will second-guess himself somewhere down the line or at the very least he will wonder at what is forever lost: the impossible, unknowable Other Path. ...

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Both works are written in 6 four-line stanzas containing 2 rhymed couplets. The predominant meter in the pair of poems is iambic tetrameter, an example being Marlowe's first line "come live/ with me/ and be/ my love." ... Though she is just a young girl, the nymph's wise reasoning reminds us that life isn't just posies, nightingales, coral clasps and gold buckles. ...

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She warmed up the cottage by lighting up the fireplace, but this line has more meaning than the literal one. ... The reasoning for her inner struggle is unclear; but given the fact the poem was written in the early 1800s, perhaps it's the shame from society during that time period of people who engaged in premarital sex or having a sexual affair. ...

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