Thursday, February 9, 2012

PLEASE HELP!! What 3 elements of poetry occur most in this poem?

Oh! call my brother back to me!

I cannot play alone;

The summer comes with flower and bee -

Where is my brother gone?



The butterfly is glancing bright

Across the sunbeam's track;

I care not now to chase its flight -

Oh! call my brother back!



The flowers run wild - the flowers we sow'd

Around our garden tree;

Our vine is drooping with its load -

Oh! call him back to me!



"He would not hear thy voice, fair child!

He may not come to thee;

The face that once like spring-time smiled,

On earth no more thou 'lt see.



"A rose's brief, bright life of joy,

Such unto him was given:

Go - thou must play alone, my boy!

Thy brother is in heaven."



And has he left his birds and flowers;

And must I call in vain?

And through the long, long summer hours,

Will he not come again?



And by the brook and in the glade

Are all our wandering's o'er?

Oh! while my brother with me play'd,

Would I had loved him more!



Please list 3 Elements of Poetry that occur most in this poem.

PLEASE HELP!! What 3 elements of poetry occur most in this poem?
Repetition, ABAB rhyme, and leixa-perna (i don't know what this is called in English though so you can skip it)
Reply:1) This poem has a clear AB rhyme scheme. In each stanza, every other line rhymes.

2) Repetition is evident, particularly with this phrase, "Oh! call my brother back!"

3) Imagery - the floral imagery weaves its way through the entire poem.

4) Simile - In the 4th stanza: "The face . . . LIKE springtime.

5) Metaphor - In the 5th stanza, the brother's life is compared to a rose.
Reply:alliteration
Reply:alliteration


No comments:

Post a Comment