The rhyme scheme of the poem is aaba, bbcb, ccdc, and dddd. ... Although the last line introduces an entirely new rhyme. ... In the final stanza no new rhyme is introduced, each line rhymes, meaning the poem has come to an end. ... The poem is mostly of monosyllabic words to keep up the poem's pace and simplicity.The significance of the rhyme scheme is to make the poem seem simpler than what it is, although the words in the poem are multidimensional. ... Frost's choice of words and connotation assist the reader of achieving a better understanding of the poem. ...

• Word Count: 1041
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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. ...

• Word Count: 294
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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 1806
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1463
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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...

• Word Count: 518
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• 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
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• 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
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• Grade Level: High School

Frost's work is divided in two parts in the above three verses with consistency of rhyme until the last verse where there are four matched end rhymes, denoting a change in the content and meaning. Moreover, rhythm in the poem is smooth with a consistently regular rhyme scheme in all four verses is as follows: aaba/bbcb/ccdc/dddd. When the rhyme scheme abruptly changes to dddd signifying a transformation in the narrator's mind, the narrator's epiphany is realized. ... In other words, after presenting both positions, which are the lure of nature versus the narrator's commitme...

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For example instead of using a special rhyme scheme, he tells as if it were a story. ... (Poetry for students VI:4), Instead of trying to rhyme more. Frost uses more vivid words to describe what is going on. ...

• Word Count: 424
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• Grade Level: High School

"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...

• Word Count: 534
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"The Road Not Taken" is a poem that has four five-line stanzas with only two end rhymes in each stanza (abaab). ... Frost uses end rhyme with words such as wood, stood and could. Those words are also an example of perfect rhyme. ...

• Word Count: 1474
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

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

Frost's technique in utilizing first person, strengthens the taste of that vision of character and reveals a glimpse of its attainability, as the reader speaks these words aloud, in the first person. ...

• Word Count: 2554
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School