Dust of Snow
1. Rhyme Scheme- abab
cdcd
2. Alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound
at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
The
instances of alliteration are as follows-
1. Has
given my heart
2. And saved some part
3. inversion – when the structure of a sentence is changed
by the poet to create rhyme, this poetic license is called inversion. In stanza
1, inversion can be seen.
4. assonance – the prominence of a vowel sound throughout a
line is called assonance. In stanza 1, line 2 –
“Shook down on me” – ‘o’ sound is prominent.
5. enjambment – when the same sentence continues to the next
line without the use of any punctuation marks, it is called enjambment. It has
been used thorughout the poem.
Fire and Ice
1. Rhyming scheme- aba / abc / bcb
2. Assonance- it is repetition of vowel sounds in same line.
The repetition is at different places in different words.
Example- The long sound of “o” in
“I hold with those who favour fire”
3. Alliteration- alliteration is the repetition of a
consonant sound at the start of two or more closely placed words.
Example- The sound of “f” in
“favour fire”, “w” in “world will”
4. Imagery- Imagery is used to make readers perceive things
involving their five senses.
Example- “Some say the
world will end in fire”
“To
say that for destruction ice Is also great”
5. Anaphora- the repetition of a word or expression at the
start of two or more consecutive lines.
Example – “Some say” is repeated
at the start of lines 1 and 2.
6. Personification- Personification is to give human
qualities to inanimate objects. In this poem, “fire” and “ice” are capable of
destruction. Thus, the poet personifies fire and ice by giving them mind and
power to destroy anything.
7. Enjambment- it is defined as the thought or clause that
does not come to an end at a line break, rather it moves over to the next line.
Example- “From what
I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who
favor fire”
The Tiger
in the Zoo
Stanza 1: Rhyme scheme: abcb (cage-rage)
Personification: The tiger is personified because
the poet refers him as ‘he’.
Metaphor: Tiger’s paws are compared with velvet
(pads of velvet)
Enjambment: Sentence is continuing to next line
without any punctuation mark.
Imagery: poet tries to create an image about the
tiger (He stalks in his vivid stripes The few steps of his cage)
Consonance: use of ‘s’ sound (stalks, his,
stripes)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘I’ (in his vivid
stripes)
Oxymoron: use of adjectives opposite in meaning
(quiet rage)
Stanza 2: Rhyme: rhyme scheme is abcb (grass-pass)
Enjambment: Line continues to next line without
punctuation marks. (Sliding through….deer pass)
Alliteration: use of sound ‘p’ at the start of two
words (plump pass)
Imagery: The poet has tries to create an image of
tiger’s activities (lurking in shadow).
Rhyme Scheme: abcb rhyme scheme is followed (edge,
village)
Enjambment: Line continues to next line without
punctuation marks (He should be snarling around houses At the jungle’s edge,)
Onomatopoeia: using words which denote sound
(snarling)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘o’ and ‘I’ (should,
around, houses), (Baring, his, white, his)
Consonance: use of consonant sound ‘s’ (his,
fangs, his, claws)
Stanza 3: Rhyme Scheme: abcb rhyme scheme is
followed (bars-visitors)
Personification: The tiger is personified because
the poet refers him as ‘he’.
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘e’ (he, locked,
concrete, cell)
Consonance: use of consonant sound ‘s’ (his,
strength, bars)
Alliteration: use of sound ‘b’ at the start of two
words (behind bars)
Stanza 4: Rhyme Scheme: abcb rhyme scheme is
followed (cars-stars)
Enjambment: Line three continues to line four
without any punctuation mark. (And stares with his brilliant eyes At the
brilliant stars.)
Alliteration: use of sound ‘h’ in the starting of
two words (he hears)
Assonance: use of ‘I’ sound (with, his, brilliant)
Metonymy: This poetic device consisitts of the
substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct of that of the thing meant.
In this poem the use of the metonymy in the 2nd line of the 4th
stanza. The poet used the word strength to mean the body of the tiger, where
the entire strength of this majestic creatue resides and which is locked up
within a cage in the zoo.
How to tell
Wild Animals
Stanza 1: Rhyme: Rhyme scheme ababcc is followed
(chance-advance, east-beast, dyin-lion)
Enjambment: Continuation of a sentence to the next
line (and if there…..tawny beast)
Inversion: Change in the format of a sentence (if
there should to you advance)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ’o’ (you should go,
should to you, roars,)
Allusion: Reference to a famous thing, place,
species of animal, etc (Asian Lion)
Stanza 2: Rhyme: Rhyme scheme ababcc is followed
(round-ground, you-you learn-discern)
Alliteration: repetition of consonant sound ‘r’ at
start of two or more closely connected words (roaming round)
Inversion: Change in the format of a sentence (The
Bengal Tiger to discern)
Allusion: Reference to a famous thing, place,
species of animal, etc (Bengal Tiger)
Assonance: Use of vowel sound ’o’ (or if some time
when roaming round)
Stanza 3: Rhyme: Rhyme scheme ababcc is followed
(view- you, peppered- Leopard, pain-again)
Alliteration: use of consonant sound ‘h’ in the
beginning of two words (he has)
Poetic license: A liberty to the poet to change
the spellings in order to create rhyme or rhythm in a poem (use of lept instead
of leapt)
Repetition: use of ‘lep’ word in the last line.
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘o’
(strolling-forth-you, whose-spot, do no good to roar)
Consonance: use of ‘l’ sound (he’ll only lep lep)
Stanza 4: Rhyme: Rhyme scheme ababcc is followed
(yard-hard, there- bear, guess-caress)
Enjambment: Continuation of a sentence to the next
line (if you were walking….creature there)
Alliteration: use of ‘w’ sound (when-walking), use
of ‘h’ sound (who- hugs), use of ‘b’ sound (be-bear)
Assonance: use of vowel ‘e’ (meet a creature
there)
Stanza 5: Rhyme: Rhyme scheme ababcc is followed
(prey-may, nonplus-thus, smiles-crocodiles)
Alliteration: use of consonant sound ‘n’
(novice-nonplus), use of ‘th’ sound (the-thus)
Enjambment: continuation of sentence to the next
line (though to distinguish….might nonplus, The crocodile…..hyena thus)
Stanza 6: Rhyme: Rhyme scheme ababcc is followed
(small-all, thing-wing, tree-see)
Alliteration: use of ‘h’ sound (he hasn’t)
Consonance: use of ‘g’ sound (single wing)
The Ball
Poem
There is no Rhyme scheme in this poem. The poem is
written in Free Verse.
Stanza 1: Anaphora: use of repeated words in two
or more lines (What is the boy… what, what and merrily bouncing… merrily over)
Assonance: repeated use of vowel ‘o’ (boy, now,
who, lost)
Imagery: when poet says merrily bouncing down the
street
repetition: ‘what’ is repeated
Stanza 2: Repetition: use of the word ‘ball’
Asyndeton: no use of conjunction in a sentence (A
dime, another ball, is worthless)
Stanza 3: Alliteration: use of sound ‘b’ at the
start of two consecutive words (buys a ball back)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘e’ (He is learning,
well behind his desperate eyes)
Repetition: ‘ball’ word is repeated
Amanda!
Stanza 1: Literary devices:
Anaphora: Repeated use of a word at start of two
or more lines (don’t bite… don’t hunch)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘o’ (don’t hunch
your shoulders)
Rhyme: aaba ccc (Amanda, Amanda, straight, Amanda,
sea, me, blissfully)
Metaphor: use of word emerald sea for green colour
of sea being similar to the colour of emrald
Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
Imagery: drifting blissfully
Alliteration: ‘Stop that slouching and sit up
straight’ – ‘s’ sound is being repeated at the start of closely placed words.
Allusion: ‘mermaid’ is a well known imaginary
creature.
Stanza 2: Literary devices:
Anaphora: Repeated use of a word at start of two
or more lines (did you finish….did you tidy)
Rhyme: Rhyme scheme is aada eee (Amanda, Amanda,
shoes, Amanda, street, feet, sweet)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘o’ (Thought, told,
you, your, shoes)
Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
Metaphor: silence is golden – silence is said to
be glorious like golden colour
freedom is sweet – freedom is said to be sweet in
taste.
Stanza 3: Literary devices:
Allusion: use of famous fairy tale character
Rapunzel
Rhyme: rhyme scheme aafa ggg (Amanda, Amanda, you,
Amanda, care, rare, hair)
Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘e’ and ‘o’ (Will
you please look at me when I’m speaking to you
Consonance: use of sound ‘r’ (I am Rapunzel; I
have not a care …..Bright hair)
Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
Stanza 4: Literary Devices:
Alliteration: ‘Stop that sulking’ – ‘s’ sound is
repeated at the start of closely placed words
Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
Rhyme scheme: aaha (Amanda, Amanda, you, Amanda)
Trees
Stanza 1: Literary Devices:
Personification: Sun bury its feet. Sun has been personified.
Enjambment: Continuation of a sentence to the next
line (the forest that was…… trees by morning).
Anaphora: 2 lines begin with ‘no’
imagery: “The trees inside are moving out into the
forest” – shows kinestatic imagery
Stanza 2: Enjambment: continuation of sentence to
the next line (the leaves strain……. Half dazed)
Simile: trees compared to patients (like newly
discharged patients)
personification: twigs and boughs have been
personified.
Stanza 3: Alliteration: ‘long letters’ forest
from’ ‘sky still’ ‘leaves and lichen’
Enjambment: continuation of sentence to the next
line (doors open….the house)
Imagery: the poet has tried to create a scene in
which she is observing all the things happening (the night is fresh……into the
rooms)
Stanza 4: Literary devices:
Simile: The moon is compared to a mirror (Moon is
broken like a mirror)
Fog
Rhyme Scheme: There is no rhyme scheme followed in
the poem. It is in free verse.
Metaphor: Fog is comapred to a cat.
Personification: Fog is personified.
Enjambment: The two sentences used in the poem
continue to the following line without any punctuation marks at the end of the
lines.
The Tale of Custard
the Dragon
Stanza 1: Literary
Devices: Rhyme scheme: aabb (house-mouse, wagon-dragon)
Repetition: use of the
word ‘little’
oxymoron: use of two
words with opposite meanings “pet dragon”
Anaphora: repeated use
of word at the start of two consecutive lines. (And a little ….And a realio)
Refrain: Repetition of
a sentence again and again (And a realio, trulio,)
poetic license: realio,
trulio for real, true. The spellings have been changed to create a musical
effect.
Stanza 2 : Rhyme
scheme: aabb (ink-blink, mustard-custard)
simile: dog compared to
mustard “And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard”
Alliteration: “coward,
and she called him Custard” - “c” sound
Anaphora: repeated use
of word at the start of two consecutive lines (And the little grey…And the
little yellow)
Repetition: use of word
little
Stanza 3: Rhyme scheme:
aabb (teeth-underneath, nose-toes)
Simile: Dragon’s mouth
is compared with fireplace (mouth like a fireplace)
Refrain: Repetition of
a sentence again and again (And a realio, trulio,)
Metaphor: “chimney for
a nose”. The nose is like a chimney.
Stanza 4: Rhyme scheme:
aabb (bears-stairs, rage-cage)
Alliteration: Belinda
was as brave as a barrel full of bears “b” sound is repeated
Simile: Belinda’s
bravery is compared to that of a barrel full of bears (as a barrel full of
bears), Mustard’s bravery is compared to that of an angry tiger (Mustard was as
brave as a tiger in a rage)
Assonance: use of vowel
sound ‘a’ (Belinda was as brave as a barrel full of bears)
Stanza 5: Rhyme scheme:
aabb (unmerciful-Percival, wagon-dragon)
Refrain: Repetition of
a sentence again and again (And a realio, trulio,)
Repetition: use of the
word ‘tickled him’
Allusion: reference to
any person or place (Percival)
Personification: Ink,
Blink and Mustard, they rudely called him Percival
Stanza 6: Rhyme scheme:
aabb (house-mouse, rage-cage)
Onomatopoeia: usage of sound words to create a dramatic
effect (giggled, weeck)
Repetition: Custard
cried for a nice safe cage (used in stanza 4)
Stanza 7: Rhyme scheme:
aabb (sound-around, Belinda-winda)
Consonance: use of
consonant sound ‘s’ (Suddenly, suddenly they heard a nasty sound)
Onomatopoeia: usage of sound words to create a dramatic
effect (Mustard growled, Meowch, cried ink)
Poetic license: window
is written as ‘winda’ to create rhyme.
Repetition: suddenly
Stanza 8: Rhyme scheme:
aabb (right- bright, wood- good)
Alliteration: beard was
black “b”, he held his “h”
Imagery: An image is
created about the appearance of the pirate.
Stanza 9: Rhyme scheme:
aabb (help-yelp, household – mousehold)
transferred epithet:
terrified yelp
Repetition: help help
Poetic license: use of
the word mousehold to rhyme with household
Stanza 10: Rhyme
scheme: aabb (engine-dungeon, squirm-worm)
Simile: sound of dragon
is compared with sound of engine (snorting like an engine), Clashed his tail
like irons in a dungeon, dragon’s attack on pirate is compared to robin bird
(like a robin at a worm)
Onomatopoeia: usage of sound words to create a dramatic
effect (clatter, clank, jangling)
Imagery: The attack by
the dragon is expressed in a way to make an image in our minds.
Stanza 11: Rhyme
scheme: aabb (dragon-flagon, hit-bit)
alliteration: gulped
some grog “g”
Imagery: They have
shown the reaction and actions made by the pirate on seeing the dragon.
Stanza 12: Rhyme
scheme: aabb (him-victim, gyrate-pirate)
alliteration: glee did
gyrate “g”
Assonance: use of vowel
sound ‘o’ (no one mourned for), use of vowel sound ‘I’ (ink and blink in glee
did), use of vowel sound ‘a’ (that ate the pirate)
Stanza 13: Rhyme
scheme: aabb (mustard-flustered, blink-ink, agree-me)
Stanza 14: Refrain:
Repetition of a sentence again and again (And a realio, trulio)
Repetition: stanza has
been repeated
For Anne Gregory
Rhyme Scheme: abcbdb
Apostrophe: Apostrophe is a figure of speech in which the
speaker addresses a dead or absent person. In the poem, the poet is seen
talking to Anne Gregory, but the readers don't see her at any point in the
poem.
Repetition: In this
poem, the phrase 'yellow hair' is repeated.
The word 'despair' is
repeated.
Synecdoche: Synecdoche
refers to a literary device in which a part of something is substituted for the
whole.
Stanza 1:
Metaphor - The poet has
compared Anne's hair with ramparts of a fort.
Alliteration - It is the repetition of a letter at the start
of closely placed words. The repetition of the letter 'y' in "your
yellow."
Stanza 2:
Alliteration - It is the repetition of a letter at the start
of closely placed words. The repetition of the letter 's' in "Set
Such."
Metonymy - The poet has
used carrot to show orange colour.
Poetic Devices:
Anaphora: It is the
repetition of a word at the start of two or more consecutive lines -
(That he had found a
text to prove
That only God, my
dear,).
Alliteration: It is the repetition of a letter at the start
of closely placed words. The repetition of the letter:
h in "he had"
y in "your
yellow".
