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Sound and sense by A.Pope (Epithet ("soft sound", " smouth…
Sound and sense by A.Pope
Onomatopoeia:
Roar
Personification:
"The line too labors"," the words move slow"
Metaphor :
"The sound must seem an echo to the sense", "gently blows",
"when loud surges lash the sounding shore", "torrent roar" ,
"the words move slow;"
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance."
Epithet
"soft sound"
" smouth stream"
" smouth numbers"
"loud surges"
"sounding shore"
"hoarse, rough verse"
Hiperbaly:
"When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw"
Litotes
" The sound must.... an echo to the sense"
Reduction
tis
Repetition
"smouth...smouth "
Reference
Myths
Greek Mythology
Zephyr ( is a greek god of the west wind)
Ajax (is a Greek mythological hero)
Roman Mythology
Camilla
In Virgil's Aeneid, Camilla of the Volsci is the daughter of King Metabus and Casmilla
Real people reference
Timotheus (Timotheus of Miletus )/ He was a Greek musician and dithyrambic poet
Alliteration
"s" is repeated
"w-v-l" repetition
Phonological alliteration
i: æ
ai:
əʊ
Alliteration provides one of the major poetic devices in this poem that delivers the sound that accompanies the sense (or the meaning). Almost every line contains some form of alliteration, whether it's at the beginning of the words or in the middle. Because alliteration is everywhere, we'll just highlight a few of the lines in which it occurs
Parallelism
Parallelism is one way to talk about the way the couplets function in lines 5-14, which is the section where the speaker demonstrates how his theory of sound and sense work.
Rhyme scheme
aaaabbccddeebb
Sheakspeare rhyme
Stanza lengths
14
Сlosest rhyme
couplets
Сlosest stanza type
sonnet
Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
Metre
1101010111 11110011101 1101110101 0111110001 1001110101 1011010101 1111010101 0111110101 1111111101 0111010111 11110101001 11001101110101 1110010101 1110010111
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
Average number of words per line: 8
Amount of lines: 14
imagery
dance-movement
dance, surges, fall,flows,flies,blows, scours,rise, swift
Simile
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. As those moved easiest who learnt to dance