The Cremation Of Sam Mcgee Summary

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“The Cremation of Sam McGee” includes several of literary devices that make it an excellent piece of poetry. In just the first few stanzas, as readers we can find several examples of those literary devices. The first thing that we notice is rhyme scheme, because it is not the same inall the stanzas. In the first stanza of this poem, the rhyme scheme is not very regular, and has a form of abcbdefe. In later stanzas, the rhyme scheme it’s more regular with a form aabbcc.

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