(composed in April 1859 & published in 1862)
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Helpful Poetic Terms for Writing about this Poem
- Consonance: Repetition of consonant sounds
Mauled and mocked her,” (428-9)
- Alliteration (a type of Consonance): Repetition of stressed consonant sounds
Clucking and gobbling,” (334-5)
- Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds
- Anaphora: A repeated poetic structure or phrasing
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands." (564-567)
- Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate the sound that they describe
- Irregular rhyme and meter: rhythm and line length of poem changes; unrhymed or rhymes don’t fall at regular intervals
Biography: Christina Rossetti
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