Feminine rhyme Essays

  • Rhyming Words: A Poem With Dog

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    Such words are also used in the music industry with lots of songs, particularly raps, having words that rhyme in them. Just because we love our dogs too much, we also want to know what rhyming words we should use if ever we write something about them. This is a list of some of the words that rhyme with dog and their corresponding meanings. Classification of words that rhyme with dog End rhyme. It means that the rhyming words featured here have the same final sound as dog. However, it does not necessarily

  • An Analysis of Adam’s Song

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    of "Adam's Song" changes distinctly at least three times. McKenty uses rhythm, rhyme, and meter to express the essence of change in the poem and in life. The first couplet of the poem is iambic tetrameter and expresses a sentimental, romantic and lyrical tone. The speaker in the poem at this point could be described as a possibly young and naive lover. The author uses the uniformed meter, assonance and ending rhyme with few surprises to declare the traditionally romantic and lyrical "love poem"

  • Black is Beautiful in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Astrophil and Stella

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    Black is Beautiful in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Sidney's Astrophil and Stella Germinating in anonymous Middle English lyrics, the subversion of the classical poetic representation of feminine beauty as fair-haired and blue-eyed took on new meaning in the age of exploration under sonneteers Sidney and Shakespeare. No longer did the brown hair of "Alison" only serve to distinguish her from the pack; the features of the new "Dark Lady" became more pronounced and sullied, and her eroticized associations

  • Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy

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    To what extent does Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Medusa’ challenge stereotypical masculine and feminine attributes? The World Wife anthology written by Carol Ann Duffy, challenges the established exemplification of prevailing characteristics found in both genders, in a patriarchal society. Duffy manipulates some of these characteristics in the poem through the mythological allusion of medusa. The innocence of womanhood is overshadowed by the protagonists’ related violent imageries; instead, she is seen

  • Comparing Carol Ann Duffy's Havisham and Robert Browning's The Laboratory

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    Comparing Carol Ann Duffy's Havisham and Robert Browning's The Laboratory In the poem “Havisham”, Carol Ann Duffy presents the subject as an old, embittered woman with “ropes on the back of her hands”. In “The Laboratory” by Robert Browning the subject is a strong and determined, but very jealous and embittered, young woman. Both poems are written in the first person in the form of a dramatic monologue. Carol Ann Duffy writes about the feelings of rejection, isolation and desolation that

  • She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron and Douglas Dunn's Reincarnation

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    feels that he didn't have chance to say goodbye because he was so unprepared for it. The diction chosen by Lord Byron is very sophisticated. The words he chooses to use, such as eloquent make his poem flow with a smooth and graceful rhythm. The rhymes in "She Walks In Beauty" are monosyllabic

  • analyzation of the poem

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    In the poem “Sea Fever”,(comma?) John Masefield writes(WC) about his obsession with the waters and illustrates his deep desire to sail the seas. The title, “Sea Fever” emphasizes his strong passion for the seas and introduces Masefield’s deepest aspiration. (Necessary or nah??) Masefield conveys his obsessive/nostalgic (right word choice for tone or should I do obsession?) yearnings through his eagerness to take his final journey on the ocean (subject clear?). Through multiple literary elements

  • Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night By Dylan Thomas

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    a nineteen-lined piece with five three-line stanzas and one four line stanza at the end. Although most of the poem consists of an A-B-A rhyme scheme, the last stanza has an A-B-A-A pattern. Additionally, each of the lines contains an end rhyme that interchanges between masculine and feminine; the masculine rhyming of “night” and “light” contrasts with the feminine rhyming of “day” and “they.” In consideration to imagery, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” encompasses many elements. The use of

  • Trigger Happy Fruit

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    Innocence and imagination can never be fully appreciated until that moment is relived again. John Tobias captures a specific summer of his life in “Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity.” Tobias depicts aspects of a memorable summer through his descriptions and sensory words of his writing. Tobias’ poem reflects the innocence and imagination only a child can create and appreciate. The summer was filled with the savoring taste of juicy watermelon and the

  • Joy Harjo Poem Analysis Paper

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    table) without which life is not sustainable. She says, “The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.” The first thing mothers do after the baby is born, is to feed it milk from their own bodies. This is an intensely feminine act of giving and sustaining life. Later, rather than giving food from her body, the mother prepares food and nourishes her family at the table. Another expression of the “life goes on theme,” is expressed in the poem When the World As We Knew It

  • Critical Analysis Of The Soul Selects Her Own Society

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    By the end of the first stanza everything changes; the meter shifts to one that is more pressing, and even the rhymes completely change into slant rhymes. This change of the poem suggests that there is a thinly veiled insistence under the initial reading, one where the “Soul” is actually crying for help. It could be that she wants to believe that she has the power but perhaps an opposing

  • The White Doe by Francesco Petrarch

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    that it is strictly about an encounter with a white doe, but it actually is a love poem. The white doe represents the woman the author loves. This poem's rhyme scheme varies from stanza to stanza. The first stanza has a rhyme scheme of ABAB, the second ABBA, the third ABA, and the fourth stanza has no rhyme scheme. The deterioration of the rhyme steady serves as a tool to exemplify how the speaker becomes lost in following the animal/woman. The entire poem is an example of personification because

  • The Regretful Traveler in Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken

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    Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” (rpt. In Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 10th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2009] 725 presents itself with a traveler that is dissatisfied with the decision that he has to make. A situation of life sometime requires a decision to be made between two things that will have a huge impact in the end. The consequences are not always what we expect. I will now explain how Frost used literal and figurative techniques to describe

  • The Melodic Tune in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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    issue was referring to an actual problem. Repetition can also be found with the word “bless” in lines 47 and 49 of act 5 scene 2. Line 33 uses alliteration of the letter B with “best bride bed” (5.2). Most of the rhymes are masculine end rhymes, however the song contains 3 feminine rhymes with the words fortunate (5.2.36), nativity (5.2.43) and consecrate (5.2.45). The mischief caused in this play was not di... ... middle of paper ... ... or be a mischief maker and was so happy he wants to sing

  • Mid-Term Break Poem

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    of view of young Heaney, taken from school after his brother died. The poem successfully conveys Heaney’s sense of grief through various poetic techniques such as metaphor, simile and alliteration. It does not have a specific rhythm, but there is rhyme in the final two lines of the poem. There are seven stanzas with three lines per stanza. The tile “Mid-Term Break” suggest a holiday of sorts, a time of enjoyment, but in reality the poem deals with a time of grief and emotion. The first stanza starts

  • hjljljlk

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    emphasises the powerful, menacing tone of the poem. The structure is regular: six lines per stanza and each one perfectly end-stopped but the line length is as jagged like the mood. The rhymes, when they come, are out of step, as in stanza three where 'own' rhymes with 'stone' and in four where 'ground' only half-rhymes with 'down' - echoing the colloquial phrase 'ground down' showing how emotionally exhausted she is. The co... ... middle of paper ... ...ose who possess a disobedient temperament

  • Analysis of Two In The Campagna by Robert Browning

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    Analysis of "Two In The Campagna" by Robert Browning "Two In The Campagna" is essentially a love poem, written by Browning to capture the tragic and dark aspects of a relationship. The poem commences with romantic images of the couple sitting in the fields of Rome in spring. The first line, starting with 'I wonder' sets the contemplative tone of the piece, and the poet follows one particular trail of thought for several stanzas. Clearly, the poet is trying to capture what cannot be easily

  • Augustan Poetic Tradition

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    invigorating strains of the poetic tradition itself" (Burris ix). For Heaney, those strains are primarily formal. "I rhyme / To see myself, to set the darkness echoing," Heaney writes in "Personal Helicon," the final poem in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). Although rhyme here signifies, more generally, writing in verse, whether rhymed or free, Heaney is certainly drawn to rhyme and closed forms. He is especially partial to rhymed tr... ... middle of paper ... ... Wilson. "The Poetry

  • Emotion in Emily Dickinson's “My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun”

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    had stood—a Loaded Gun” Dickinson thought of what format to use to express her emotions; Quatrain (four verses). This format is used to express deep emotions at any time. She uses lines in her poem that seem the same but not quite; they are “slant rhymes”. Dickinson grew up in a time where abolition rose up (which is why her poetry is so deep); and in the most religious, morally upright and independent sections of the United States. Dickinson represents herself and her life, metaphorically, as a loaded

  • Social Issues in Judith Wrights work

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    Man” and “Remittance Man” are two poems through which Wrights beliefs on pregnancy, the relationship between man and wife, and social dissatisfaction due to context are examined. Poetic techniques or devices such as rhythm, figurative language and rhyme all position the reader not only to be aware of the social issue, but also to understand it, often through Wright’s perspective. “Woman to Man” is an example of a poem which examines a social issue through poetic techniques, based on Wright’s context