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  1. Rhyme scheme followed by the poem is abab cdcd and so on and so forth.   From "An Elegy written in a country churchyard" Summary

    Rhyme scheme followed by the poem is abab cdcd and so on and so forth.

     

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    This poem has a myriad of poetic devices, some of which are as follows: Syncope: Words have been shortened in order to maintain the rhythm of the lyrics. Examples would be: o'er, mould'ring, twitt', ring, pow'r, th’ Eye Rhyme: In order to maintain the rhyme scheme, words that are pronounced differenRead more

    This poem has a myriad of poetic devices, some of which are as follows:

    1. Syncope: Words have been shortened in order to maintain the rhythm of the lyrics. Examples would be: o’er, mould’ring, twitt’, ring, pow’r, th’
    2. Eye Rhyme: In order to maintain the rhyme scheme, words that are pronounced differently but are similar are used. Examples would be: toil and smile, gave and grave.
    3. Personification: ‘Ambition’ and ‘Grandeur’ are capitalized to attribute human qualities to them.
    4. Transferred Epithet: The plowman homeward plods his weary way’ In this line, ‘weary’ is used to describe the way when what it means to convey is how the plowman   is feeling.

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  1. While this poem is indeed a lamentation, the central idea could be observed to be the celebration of people who are not out of the ordinary in life, people who are not deemed to be great. Commemorating of these people in order to honour them in their deaths is thus the main idea in this poem. From "Read more

    While this poem is indeed a lamentation, the central idea could be observed to be the celebration of people who are not out of the ordinary in life, people who are not deemed to be great. Commemorating of these people in order to honour them in their deaths is thus the main idea in this poem.

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