Personification: The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. For example, “Laugh, and the World laughs with you.” Imagery: Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of meRead more
- Personification: The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. For example, “Laugh, and the World laughs with you.”
- Imagery: Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images. For example, “nectared wine”
- Metaphor: A common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object. For example, “Through the narrow aisles of pain”
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‘Solitude’ by Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a three-stanza poem that is separated into sets of eight lines or octaves. Each of these octaves follows a consistent rhyme scheme of ABCBDEFE. Solitude Summary
‘Solitude’ by Ella Wheeler Wilcox is a three-stanza poem that is separated into sets of eight lines or octaves. Each of these octaves follows a consistent rhyme scheme of ABCBDEFE.
Solitude Summary
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