in her room at the prow of the house
where light breaks and the windows are tossed with linden.
my daughter is writing a story
i pause in the stairwell , hearing
from her shut door a commotion of typewriter- keys
like a chain hauled over a gunwale.
young as she is, the stuff
of her life is a great cargo, and some of its heavy;
i wish her a lucky passage.
but now it is she who pauses
as if to reject my thought and its easy figure.
a stillness greatens in which.
the whole house seems to be thinking.
and then she is at it agian with a bunched clamor
of strokes and again is silent.
can you find simile , metaphor, personification and alliteration
is this free verse? or structured?
what is the rymes scheme?
Simile site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simile
The last line of the second verse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor
Look at the first line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification
Look at the last verse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_verse
its is a simile child
Sure! Let's analyze the given passage to identify the literary devices and determine the form of the poem:
Simile: A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things using "like" or "as."
- In this passage, there is no explicit simile.
Metaphor: A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, suggesting similarity.
- In this passage, there is no explicit metaphor either.
Personification: Personification is a figure of speech that gives human attributes or qualities to non-human entities.
- In the passage, there is personification when it describes the house "thinking." ("the whole house seems to be thinking")
Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
- In the passage, there is alliteration with the phrase "bunched clamor of strokes."
Now, let's analyze the form of the poem:
Free Verse: Free verse is a form of poetry that does not follow a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
- The given passage does not adhere to a strict pattern of meter or rhyme, so it can be considered free verse.
Rhyme Scheme: Rhyme scheme is the pattern of end rhymes in a poem.
- Since the passage is written in free verse, it does not have a specific rhyme scheme.
In summary, in the given passage, there is personification and alliteration, but no simile or metaphor. The poem follows a free verse form, and the rhyme scheme is not applicable.