Explication: The Ballad Of Wordly Wealth
Explication: Final Draft
The “Ballad of Wordly Wealth” is a depiction of how money can bring pride and corruption into our society. This explication will review the many rhetoric forms and patterns of this such poem. The form of this poem is a ballad. A ballad's contents include 3 stanzas, at least 8 lines in each stanza, and a refrain (a repeated phrase at the end point of a poem) a refrain in example of the Ballad of Wordly Wealth is “Youth, and health, and Paradise” The author used sophisticated imagery to portray money as both a staple in society, and as the the icon of the world's power and corruption. There are several rhetoric patterns that were found in the poem “Ballad of Wordly Wealth”. The rhyme pattern is a End rhyme. Poems …show more content…
The sentence structure in this poem does not contain any sentence fragments, and does not ramble or include run-on sentences since they are separated by punctuations points such as comas, colons, and semicolons. However, the subject and predicate of the poem is sought as very repetitive.
Money maketh festival, Wine she buys, and beds can strow;
Round the necks of captains tall, Money wins them chains to throw,
Marches soldiers to and fro, Gaineth ladies with sweet eyes:
These alone can ne'er bestow: Youth, and health, and Paradise.
(Subject = red Predicate = blue)
As can be seen in the above stanza, these sentences are in compound form, the subject of Money is repeated throughout the first two lines of the stanza, making it clear that it is the main subject of the poem.
The author uses vocabulary referring to the Old English, using unfamiliar words such as: Ebb, Ne'er, mitres, Abbeys, gaineth, maketh, strow, and penitence. Some of these words that I tried to define were categorized Archaic, since these words are no longer used in modern
The “Ballad of Wordly Wealth” is a depiction of how money can bring pride and corruption into our society. This explication will review the many rhetoric forms and patterns of this such poem. The form of this poem is a ballad. A ballad's contents include 3 stanzas, at least 8 lines in each stanza, and a refrain (a repeated phrase at the end point of a poem) a refrain in example of the Ballad of Wordly Wealth is “Youth, and health, and Paradise” The author used sophisticated imagery to portray money as both a staple in society, and as the the icon of the world's power and corruption. There are several rhetoric patterns that were found in the poem “Ballad of Wordly Wealth”. The rhyme pattern is a End rhyme. Poems …show more content…
The sentence structure in this poem does not contain any sentence fragments, and does not ramble or include run-on sentences since they are separated by punctuations points such as comas, colons, and semicolons. However, the subject and predicate of the poem is sought as very repetitive.
Money maketh festival, Wine she buys, and beds can strow;
Round the necks of captains tall, Money wins them chains to throw,
Marches soldiers to and fro, Gaineth ladies with sweet eyes:
These alone can ne'er bestow: Youth, and health, and Paradise.
(Subject = red Predicate = blue)
As can be seen in the above stanza, these sentences are in compound form, the subject of Money is repeated throughout the first two lines of the stanza, making it clear that it is the main subject of the poem.
The author uses vocabulary referring to the Old English, using unfamiliar words such as: Ebb, Ne'er, mitres, Abbeys, gaineth, maketh, strow, and penitence. Some of these words that I tried to define were categorized Archaic, since these words are no longer used in modern