The poem is composed of four iambic pentameter quatrains with a conventional ABAB rhyme pattern. Richard Cory Summary
The poem is composed of four iambic pentameter quatrains with a conventional ABAB rhyme pattern.
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The poem is composed of four iambic pentameter quatrains with a conventional ABAB rhyme pattern. Richard Cory Summary
The poem is composed of four iambic pentameter quatrains with a conventional ABAB rhyme pattern.
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The poem focuses on significant issues like wealth and happiness, not passing judgment on people based just on their outward appearance, the contrast between the lives and emotions of the rich and the poor, and the irony of the happiness that exists in each of their lives. Richard Cory SummarRead more
The poem focuses on significant issues like wealth and happiness, not passing judgment on people based just on their outward appearance, the contrast between the lives and emotions of the rich and the poor, and the irony of the happiness that exists in each of their lives.
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Personification: A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. For example, “The yellowed diary's notes whisper in vernacular.” Enjambment: It is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. For example, “We wish wRead more
Personification: A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. For example, “The yellowed diary’s notes whisper in vernacular.”
Enjambment: It is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break. For example, “We wish we had not to wake up with our smiles/ in the middle of some social order.
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Richard Cory, a short poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, illustrates the disparity between assumptions and reality and advises the reader against making moral judgements based solely on physical appearances. Richard Cory Summary
Richard Cory, a short poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, illustrates the disparity between assumptions and reality and advises the reader against making moral judgements based solely on physical appearances.
Richard Cory Summary
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