statements made in the poem are very straightforward‚ but by using multiple literary and poetic devices‚ Hughes manages to deliver his message powerfully and very effectively. Let America Be America Again starts out simply with easy quatrains in an ABAB rhyme scheme (893 lines 1-14). He writes of America as an omniscient narrator‚ however‚ after each stanza‚ he parenthetically places his own thoughts about how the legend of America never was what it was supposed to be to him. By doing this‚ he manages
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on the traditional sonnet. A sonnet is usually about love‚ and although this doesn’t immediately strike you as being a love poem‚ the primary message is that love and affection never truly dies. The writer has chosen to stick to the basic‚ monotone “abab” rhyme scheme of a sonnet. This shows him as being level-headed and emotionless‚ as the scheme is very rigid and regular. The use of iambic pentameter furthermore backs this up. Iambic pentameter is very regimental with emphasis on every other syllable
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structured thematic organisation. It consists of three quatrains and one rhyming couplet with a succesion of deca-syllabic lines.It has a rhyming scheme where the first line rhymewith the third one and the second line with the fourth one that is an "abab" pattern. Most words carry the weight of negative connotation which is conveyed in simple language. Where words are used metaphoically‚ thet are meant to portray a deep sense of pain felt in epithets or double negative words like:"sad pain’‚ "endless
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"Sea against sand; they stowed away In the hold of the ship their shining armor... Will the seamen that sailed her sighted the land Shining cliffs and coastwise hills‚" (p14‚ ln 74-83) The use of consonance here repeats the sound of the wind. Beowulf and his men are going to go save the Danes. They must cross the sea and the wind acts very favorable and leads them to the way. The "s" sound imitates the sound of a swift and light wind‚ not a treacherous gust. "Foam on her breast‚ like a bird
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Mowing Complete Text There was never a sound beside the wood but one‚ And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. What was it it whispered? I know not well myself; Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun‚ Something perhaps‚ about the lack of sound— 5 And that was why it whispered and did not speak. It was not dream of the gift of idle hours‚ Or easy gold at the hand of fay or elf: Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak To the earnest love that laid
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see his pilot after he has crossed over to heaven; which is the other side. ["Crossing the Bar"] One of the main poetic devices that Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson has used in this poem is rhyme. The rhyme scheme of the individual lines and the stanzas is ABAB’ because the first and the third stanza lines are linked to one another as the second and fourth. Also‚ both the first and third stanzas begin with two symbols referring to the beginning of the night and both of the stanzas follow with the next two
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are still not free. The black boy has a dream‚ that all humans will be equal‚ and that his master would love him. The diction in the poem is very simple because Blake is writing the poem in a slave’s point of view. Also‚ the rhyming scheme‚ which is ABAB‚ is also very simple emphasizing the same point. In the first stanza‚ the boy says "And I am black‚ but O! my soul is white". Here exists a metaphor where the boy relates goodness and decency to the color white. He says that even though his color
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to Frost’s style‚ “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep” reads with a musical quality. The rhythm and the rhyme are like that of a siren’s song‚ compelling its audience to read and reread it again. The seemingly ordinary diction combined with the lyrical abab rhyme scheme‚ mesmerizes the reader. But upon multiple readings‚ the reader discovers a much deeper world beyond the/these musical qualities. The ambiguity of the language Frost employs in “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep” adds to the mystery of the
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The poem “Follower” adheres to a clear ABAB rhyme scheme‚ thus setting the pace and giving the reader an impression of organisation‚ while “The Gift” is written in free verse and consequently comes across as messy and unorganised. This structural contrast is especially significant when the storyline
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Autumn‚" the " perfect embodiment of poetic form‚ intent‚ and effect‚" is an ode‚ a serious and dignified lyric poem that adheres to a stanzaic form and is fairly long. Keats’s ode is divided into three eleven-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme of abab cdecdde. Autumn is personified by Keats‚ and he employs apostrophe‚ addressing Autumn as a woman: Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?..../thee sitting careless on a granary floor‚/Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind/....And sometimes
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