Poetry †Alliteration Essay

The first poem Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare has a buffoonish vox populi on the traditional ideas of beauty. The poem is a five duplet metre with the stressed sounds starting on the second word of distributively roue. Each line has the same amount of stressed and unstressed patterns which is very common for sonnets to make it quick and easy to read. The five duplet pattern never mimics human speech in the way a four duplet pattern does.The end of each alternating line has a distinct rhyming pattern which goes on throughout the poem. in that respect is also an assonance pattern with each of these words. The first line My mistress eyes are nothing comparable the sun shows use of a illustration the same as most of the last line I think my love as rare as More use of similes could have been do in the following lines.There is an example of weak alliteration in line eleven I grant I never saw a goddess go There is a metaphor in line four when he talks about his mistress hair, s aying they are black wires, this view today would be a completely different view from when the poem was written. In our modern time we think of electrical wires coming out of her head. closely of the poem gives negative connotations, the words sun, red coral, perfume and music provides beautiful images.The denotations are her eyes do not shine like the bright sun, her breath reeks unlike the smell of perfume and her voice is not pleasant to hear unlike music.The second poem Philip Larkins The Trees is a dozen line poem that seems to compare the life of a tree to human life. In each stanza the first and fourth line, the end word rhymes with one another(prenominal) along with the second and third last word also rhyming. There is a four duplet pattern with the stressed pattern on the second syllable of each line. Each of these words show a clear assonance pattern with the words thresh and afresh repeated three times, when spoken aloud roughly sound like the wind rustling through the leaves of the tree.