| Select one of the following poems and analyze
its use of sound. Is there a rhyme scheme? Are their end rhymes?
Slant rhymes? Does the poem use other kinds of repetition (of a line
or a sound)? Is the repetition a form of assonance or alliteration?
How is sound important to the meaning of the poem? You can analyze
the poem by drawing lines linking words with similar sounds, circling different
repeated sounds in different colors, etc.
Plath, "Daddy," 65
Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays," 111
Eamon Grennan, "Lying Low," 250
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