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The poet Robert Browning wrote the poem “Love in a Life” using a consistent rhyme scheme pattern of “ABCDDABC” Love in a Life Summary
The poet Robert Browning wrote the poem “Love in a Life” using a consistent rhyme scheme pattern of “ABCDDABC”
See lessPersonification: Personification is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given human qualities. The poet has used this device in the following lines Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her— Next time, herself!—not the trouble behind her Here, “heart” is peRead more
Personification is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given human qualities.
The poet has used this device in the following lines
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her—
Next time, herself!—not the trouble behind her
Here, “heart” is personified with human emotion “fear”
Repetition is a literary device where a certain word or phrase is repeated multiple times to emphasise the word or to create a rhythm.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Room after room,
And door succeess door;
Here, the words “room” and “door” are repeated in the same line for the sake of emphasis. It is also called palligogy.
Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase.
The poet has used the device in the following lines.
Room after room,
I hunt the house through
Heart, fear nothing, for
Yon looking-glass gleamed at
Imagery is a literary device, where the writer tries to create the picture in the minds of the readers through his words.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Visual imagery:
Yon looking-glass gleamed at the wave of her feather.
Olfactory Imagery:
Left in the curtain, the couch’s perfume!
See lessThe poet has written the poem “The Writer” in the form of free verse. A free verse poem does not follow a rhyming pattern or metre. So, the poem “The Writer” doesn't have a uniform rhyme scheme. Yet, there are certain internal rhymes that can be found in the poem. The Writer Summary
The poet has written the poem “The Writer” in the form of free verse. A free verse poem does not follow a rhyming pattern or metre. So, the poem “The Writer” doesn’t have a uniform rhyme scheme. Yet, there are certain internal rhymes that can be found in the poem.
See lessSimile: Simile is a poetic device where two things are compared using the word “like” or “as”. The poet has used this device in the following lines. Like a chain hauled over a gunwale Here, the poet is comparing the chain on a gunwale to the sounds of the typewriting keys. Personification: PersonifiRead more
Simile is a poetic device where two things are compared using the word “like” or “as”.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Like a chain hauled over a gunwale
Here, the poet is comparing the chain on a gunwale to the sounds of the typewriting keys.
Personification is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given human qualities.
The poet has used this poetic device in the following lines.
The whole house seems to be thinking
Here, the house is personified.
Metaphor is a literary device where two unrelated objects are compared to each other.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Young as she is, the stuff
Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy:
I wish her a lucky passage.
Throughout the poem, the poet is comparing his daughter to a sailor taking a journey on a ship.
Anaphora is a literary device that uses the repetition of short phrases or single words at the beginning of clauses or sentences to enhance rrhythm.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
And retreated, not to affright it;
And how for a helpless hour, through the crack of the door,
See lessAlliteration: Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase. The poet has used this device in the following lines. Something told the wild geese It was time to go. Though the fields lay golden Personification: PersonificatRead more
Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.
Though the fields lay golden
Personification is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given human qualities.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered,—”Snow.”
Throughout the poem “Nature” is personified as “Something” that warns the wild geese to prepare for the winter.
Repetition is a literary device where a certain word or phrase is repeated multiple times to emphasise the word or to create a rhythm.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered,—”Snow.”
The poet has repeatedly used the word “something” to emphasise the word.
Refrain is a poetic device where a word or phrase is repeated at regular intervals to emphasise the idea.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Something told the wild geese
This line is repeated in the poem to emphasise the meaning.
Something Told the Wild Geese Summary
See lessThe poet Rachel Field had followed the rhyme scheme of ABCB in the poem “Something Told the Wild Geese”. This rhyme scheme is also known as ballad rhyme scheme. Something told the wild geese It was time to go. Though the fields lay golden Something whispered,—”Snow.” Something Told the Wild GeRead more
The poet Rachel Field had followed the rhyme scheme of ABCB in the poem “Something Told the Wild Geese”. This rhyme scheme is also known as ballad rhyme scheme.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered,—”Snow.”
Something Told the Wild Geese Summary
See lessSimile: The poet has used this device in the following lines. Of course, I can guess to whom they raise their arms: they have their mother as I have my own. Here, the child speaker is comparing her mother to the mothers of flowers (Nature) Alliteration: Alliteration is a literary device in which cerRead more
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Of course, I can guess to whom they raise their arms: they have their mother as I have my own.
Here, the child speaker is comparing her mother to the mothers of flowers (Nature)
Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
When storm clouds rumble in the sky and June showers come down,
The moist east wind comes marching over the heath to blow its bagpipes among the bamboos.
Then crowds of flowers come out of a sudden, from nobody knows where, and dance upon the grass in wild glee.
Metaphor is a literary device where two unrelated objects are compared to each other.
The poet Tagore has used the following device in the following lines.
The moist east wind comes marching over the heath to blow its bagpipes among the bamboos.
The moist east wind comes marching over the heath to blow its bagpipes among the bamboo.
Here, the poet says that when the wind blows through the bamboo, it makes a sound. It is compared to the sounds of bagpipes.
The moist east wind comes marching over the heath to blow its bagpipes among the bamboos.
The sound of wind blowing towards the heath is compared to the marching sound.
rush out in dresses of pink and yellow and white.
The child speaker compares the colour of flowers to the uniforms.
Personification is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given human qualities.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
The moist east wind comes marching over the heath to blow
Here, the east wind is described as marching soldiers.
Then crowds of flowers come out of a sudden, from nobody knows where, and dance upon the grass in wild glee.
Here, the flowers are described as a crowd dancing upon the grass.
Mother, I really think the flowers go to school underground.
The child speaker compares the flowers to the school children.
thunder-clouds clap their giant hands and the flower children
Here, the thunder cloud is personified as clapping hands.
Of course, I can guess to whom they raise their arms: they have their mother as I have my own.
Nature is personified as the mother of flower in this line.
A rhetorical question is a literary question that is asked in the literary work not to provide an answer, but to emphasise the concept or idea behind the question.
The poet Tagore has used this device in the following lines.
Haven’t you seen how eager they are to get there? Don’t you know why they are in such a hurry?
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The poem “When I was fair and young” has AABB rhyme scheme. The same rhyme scheme is followed throughout the poem. The two lines form a closed rhyming couplet. When I was fair and young, then favor graced me. Of many was I sought their mistress for to be. But I did scorn them all and answered them tRead more
The poem “When I was fair and young” has AABB rhyme scheme. The same rhyme scheme is followed throughout the poem. The two lines form a closed rhyming couplet.
When I was fair and young, then favor graced me.
Of many was I sought their mistress for to be.
But I did scorn them all and answered them therefore:
Go, go, go, seek some other where; importune me no more.
When I Was Fair and Young Summary
See lessThe following are the poetic devices used by Queen Elizabeth I in her poem “When I Was Fair and Young” Alliteration: Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase. The poet has used this device in the following lines. Go, go,Read more
The following are the poetic devices used by Queen Elizabeth I in her poem “When I Was Fair and Young”
Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Go, go, go, seek some other
where; importune me no more.
How many sighing hearts I have not skill to show
Metaphor is a literary device where two unrelated objects are compared to each other.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
I will so pluck your plumes as you shall say no more:
Here the speaker is compared to a bird.
Personification is a poetic device where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given human qualities.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
When I was fair and young, then favor graced me.
Here, the “favour” of an abstract idea is personified.
Anaphora is a literary device that uses the repetition of short phrases or single words at the beginning of clauses or sentences to enhance rhythm.
The poet has used this device in the first two lines of the second stanza.
How many weeping eyes I made to pine in woe,
How many sighing hearts I have not skill to show,
Here, both the lines begin with the phrase “How many”.
Allusion is an indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text.
The poet has alluded to the God Venus and Cupid in the following lines.
Then spake fair Venus’ son, that proud victorious boy,
Refrain is a poetic device that uses repetition to place emphasis on a set of words or an idea within a poem.
The poet has used this device in the following lines.
Go, go, go, seek some other where; importune me no more.
When I Was Fair and Young Summary
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Alliteration: Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase. The poet Stevenson has used this device in the following lines. Under the wide and starry sky, Glad did I live and gladly die, Repetition: Repetition is a literaryRead more
Alliteration is a literary device in which certain sounds are repeated at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase.
The poet Stevenson has used this device in the following lines.
Under the wide and starry sky,
Glad did I live and gladly die,
Repetition is a literary device where a certain word or phrase is repeated multiple times to emphasise the word or to create a rhythm.
The poet Stevenson has used this device in the following lines.
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.”
Here, the word “home” is repeated.
Metaphor is a literary device where two unrelated objects are compared to each other.
The poet Stevenson has used this device in the following lines.
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.”
Here, the speaker of the poem is compared to a sailor who returns home from sea. While the next line compares the speaker to a hunter who returns home from the hill.
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