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

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