We're studying a Dickinson poem Wild Nights--
I have a question
Wild Nights--Wild Night!
Were I with thee
1. Is that an example of an internal rhyme, slant rhyme, alliteration or caesura?
2. The poem has two stanzas that are ABBA and then two ABCB and ABCB
What best describes the rhyme scheme?
abcb
heroic couplets, slant rhyme or abba
I know its a slant rhyme but what best describes it-should I go on the rhyme scheme of ABCB or slant rhyme
http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1318019566
I know the answer for the second one-it is ABCB but I'm not sure what that other website was suppose to tell me- I read it but I still have a question about number 1-Wild Night! Wild Night! I've eliminated internal rhyme but I'm not sure is that an example of caesura? I don't think it is slant rhyme
Any suggestions
alliteration
1. To determine whether "Wild Nights--Wild Night!" is an example of internal rhyme, slant rhyme, alliteration, or caesura, let's analyze the poem.
Internal rhyme refers to rhyming words within the same line of poetry. Slant rhyme, on the other hand, involves words that have similar but not identical sounds. Alliteration refers to the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words. Caesura is a pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry.
Looking at the line "Wild Nights--Wild Night!", we can see that the words "Wild" and "Night" rhyme, which indicates an example of slant rhyme. The similarity between the ending consonant sounds (-ild and -ight) suggests that this is not an example of internal rhyme, alliteration, or caesura.
2. Now let's discuss the rhyme scheme of the poem. The poem is divided into four stanzas.
The first two stanzas follow an ABBA rhyme scheme. This means that the first and fourth lines of each stanza rhyme, while the second and third lines rhyme with each other.
Example:
Stanza 1: "Wild Nights--Wild Night! (A)
Were I with thee (B)"
Stanza 2: "Wild Nights should be (A)
Our luxury! (B)"
In the last two stanzas, the rhyme scheme changes to ABCB.
Example:
Stanza 3: "Futile the winds (A)
To a heart in port (B)"
Stanza 4: "Done with the compass (A)
Done with the chart! (B)"
Thus, the best way to describe the rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBA for the first two stanzas and ABCB for the last two stanzas. The slant rhyme ("Wild Nights--Wild Night!") that appears in the poem is an example within the overall rhyme scheme. So, the answer would be "ABBA" for the best description of the rhyme scheme, rather than "slant rhyme."