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    Repetition: Repetition refers to the use of the same word or phrase multiple times and is a fundamental poetic technique. For example, “The Hunter” has been repeated several times in the poem. Alliteration: The repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a line of text.Read more

    1. Repetition: Repetition refers to the use of the same word or phrase multiple times and is a fundamental poetic technique. For example, “The Hunter” has been repeated several times in the poem.
    2. Alliteration: The repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a line of text. For example, “felt the deer’s lack of fear”.

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    The poet wants to remind the readers to be kind towards the animals as they are helpless but living creatures too. Their life is precious just as humans and killing them affects their family as well.   The hunter and a deer summary

    The poet wants to remind the readers to be kind towards the animals as they are helpless but living creatures too. Their life is precious just as humans and killing them affects their family as well.

     

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    Repetition: It refers to the use of the same word or phrase multiple times and is a fundamental poetic technique. For example, the first stanza is repeated at the end of the poem Alliteration: The repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a line of text. For example, “Read more

    1. Repetition: It refers to the use of the same word or phrase multiple times and is a fundamental poetic technique. For example, the first stanza is repeated at the end of the poem
    2. Alliteration: The repetition of the same letter sound across the start of several words in a line of text. For example, “Through day and darkness”.

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  1. The poet expresses the usefulness of trains in our lives. A train is a railway wagon with multiple bogies which is moved by a locomotive engine that carries many passengers, mail, and cargo from one place to another. It carries thousands of freight cars while rushing through the railway tracks fromRead more

    The poet expresses the usefulness of trains in our lives. A train is a railway wagon with multiple bogies which is moved by a locomotive engine that carries many passengers, mail, and cargo from one place to another. It carries thousands of freight cars while rushing through the railway tracks from dawn to dusk and helps passengers in reaching their destination while crossing many mountains, plains, and rivers.

     

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  1. This poem is divided into six stanzas consisting of four lines each. Each stanza follows the rhyme scheme ‘abcb’.   I am writing a letter Summary

    This poem is divided into six stanzas consisting of four lines each. Each stanza follows the rhyme scheme ‘abcb’.

     

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    Visual Imagery: The poem is filled with vivid visual images. One example would be the detailed description of the ‘blotting paper’. Anaphora: Examples would be ‘And put the address/And begin, “Dearest Mummy,”’, and ‘And run to the post box/And now it has gone!’ where ‘and’ is repeated in the beginniRead more

    1. Visual Imagery: The poem is filled with vivid visual images. One example would be the detailed description of the ‘blotting paper’.
    2. Anaphora: Examples would be ‘And put the address/And begin, “Dearest Mummy,”’, and ‘And run to the post box/And now it has gone!’ where ‘and’ is repeated in the beginning of each line.
    3. Parenthesis: This can be seen with the usage of brackets in the line ‘(Did anyone guess?)’.

     

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  1. This is a short and sweet poem. The persona delves into the nuances of how to write a letter as they write on for their beloved mother.   I am writing a letter Summary

    This is a short and sweet poem. The persona delves into the nuances of how to write a letter as they write on for their beloved mother.

     

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    The excerpt here consists of three stanzas with lines of varying length. It has an equally varying rhyme scheme which shifts from ‘abbaa’ in stanza one to ‘aabb’ in stanza two to ‘abccba’ in the third stanza.   How beautiful is the rain Summary

    The excerpt here consists of three stanzas with lines of varying length. It has an equally varying rhyme scheme which shifts from ‘abbaa’ in stanza one to ‘aabb’ in stanza two to ‘abccba’ in the third stanza.

     

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