A pun is a play of words. ... Words rhyme when their concluding syllables have a similar sound. Two words are said to rhyme if their last stressed vowel and the sounds that follow it match (as in "afar" and "bizarre," "biology" and "ideology," or "computer" and "commuter"). End-rhymes are words at the end of successive lines that rhyme with each other: Internal rhymes are rhyming words within a line. ... In partial rhyme the sounds are similar but not identical. ...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this poem words are selected, and used to bring deep though to the readers mind. ... (line 19) show how words can paint a better picture, than a brush can at times. The word botched stands out from the other words due to it's sepperation from the rest of the line by the comma. ... Things like rhyme have been disregarded, but for exceptional reason, like to provide a more serious feeling to show this poem, as something more than a joke or a trivial matter. Although rhyme is disregarded, rhythm is present throughout the entirety, and gives the poem quite a large amount of flo...

• Word Count: 396
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1053
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 662
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The word choice "Trod" and "Dirt" have connotative meanings because the majority of people would associate these words with animals. ... The rhyme scheme throughout the poem is A, B, C, B excluding the last two stanzas where the scheme is A, B, A, B, B, B, C, B, C, B, D, D, B, B, B. Although there is no set number of syllables on each line, there still remains a constant pattern of between five to eight words on each line. Much like the rhyming scheme, the last two stanzas stray from this pattern leaving several lines with only two words. ... This piece has a powerful mean...

• Word Count: 1250
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Mackowski does not use any consistent meter patterns or rhyme in the poem, but the poem is full of slant and internal rhymes. ... Here by using the rhyming words of rest and nest, she makes up for the lack of meter pattern and gives the sentence a lyrical tone making it easy to read. ... The content of the poem together with Mackowski's love for the cadence, textures, and blending of words bring a joyful freshness to "Consciousness" that makes it attractive to each reader....

• Word Count: 1356
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There is no regard to stress or traditional use of rhyme. ... The first line ends with a one-syllable (masculine) 'wings', and concludes on the second line with a two-syllable (feminine), rhyming 'markings'. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

There is no regard to stress or traditional use of rhyme. ... The first line ends with a one-syllable (masculine) 'wings', and concludes on the second line with a two-syllable (feminine), rhyming 'markings'. ... The auther notes that the Martian does not know the words for "cry" or "laugh", and he uses metaphors to describe how the reader reacts to the effects of books "eyes to melt" (cry) and the "body to shriek without pain" (laugh). ...

• Word Count: 1520
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

They continued to write Romantic Poetry, in rhyming lines, while Lowell continued to become more versatile, writing in free verse, but in an imagiste style. ... After reading poetry by the same author, in the same style, only with different words tends to make me bored. ... The use of natural words - the sites and sounds of nature - remain the main focus of this poem, as they often did with Amy Lowell. ...

• Word Count: 2108
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The tone seems carefree and the poem flows smoothly like a nursery rhyme, however the poem is about something horrible and sick; the death and abuse of children through brutal child labor. ... The neighbor remembers not even loving or knowing her mother anymore because the blows her mother delivered were, "worse than blows hateful/ words could bring, the face that I/ no longer knew or loved-(Lines 16-18). ...

• Word Count: 1220
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Her unique free style is due mainly to her peculiar placement of punctuation, such as dashes that break the lines keeping them open, unusual grammar and capitalization of seemingly banal words. ... In fact, through the synesthesia, syllables and sentences are described by words generally used in describing petals, which compose the flower's cup like syllables and sentences compose a poem. ... The negative account of other, pedestrian speech forms, like the admission of naturally superior discourse , is not only a way of recognizing (and sharing one's recognition) of a reality that l...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate