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"Sound And Sense" by Alexander Pope (Lexical SD (Simile (Lines 1…
"Sound And Sense" by Alexander Pope
Metre
Rhythm
lambic pentameter
True
'ea
se in
'wri
ting 'comes from
'a
rt, not c
h'an
ce,
As t
h'o
se move
'ea
siest who h
'a
ve l
'ea
rned to d
'an
ce.
Heroic Couplets
Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently
blows
,
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers
flows
;
But when loud surges lash the sounding
shore
,
The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent
roar
;
Rhyme
Full rhymes
...from art, not
chance
,... who have learned to
dance
.;
...harshness gives
offense
,...an echo to the
sense
.
Incomplete rhyme
Consonant rhyme
But when
l
oud surges
l
ash the sounding shore
"Eye-rhyme"
The hoarse, r
ou
gh verse sh
ou
ld like..
Phonetical SD
Onomatopoeia
Indirect onomatopoeia
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore
The sound must seem an echo to the sense
Alliteration
Line 4:
The
S
ound must
s
eem an Eccho to the
S
ense.
Lines 5 and 6:
Soft is the Strain when Zephyr gently blows,/ And the
sm
ooth
S
tream in
s
m
oother Numbers flows;
Lines 7 and 8:
But when loud
S
urges lash the
s
ounding
Sh
ore,/ The hoarse, rough Verse
sh
ou'd like the Torrent roar.
Lexical SD
Allusions
Ajax, from Homer's Iliad (lines 9-10)
Timotheus, a Greek poet (line 13)
Camilla, from Virgil's Aeneid (lines 11-12)
Simile
Lines 1 and 2:
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance."
The author compares art of writing to the art of dancing
Lines 7 and 8:
"But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,
The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar;"
The author use a simile to compare the ocean to the sound of poetry.
Metaphor
Lines 5 and 6:
"Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows,
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows,
"
The verse is smooth, the smooth numbers of syllables in a line of verse. This metaphor shows the difference between nature and the art of writing
Lines 9 and 10:
"When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,
The line too labors, and the words move slow;"
The poem is compared with the nature