Wow, thanks, Emily that's just what we wanted to feel right now. It doesn't feel as tight sound-wise, which helps to let us feel the freezing people's gradual relaxation into death. In a way, it feels like she lets the poem breathe a little more. On the whole, though, Emily lightens up on the sonic devices here. This is the Hour of Lead – Remembered, if out lived, As Freezing persons, reco llect the Snow – First – Chi ll – then Stupor – then the letting go – (10-13) Speech repetition occurs when individuals speak the sounds that they have heard another person pronounce or say.In other words, it is the saying by one individual of the spoken vocalizations made by another individual. The repetition of vowel sounds within words, but not the surrounding consonant sounds.
Tongue twisters are the most obvious use of consonance, as in 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled. In the final quatrain, we do have some more consonance every line has at least one word with an L sound: Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds, often at the beginning of words. It also jibes perfectly with imperfect meter of the stanza (more on that in "Form and Meter"). This somewhat willy-nilly soundscape works great to capture the confused emotions and that the disjointed images of this stanza gives us. The Feet, me chanical, go round A Quartz contentment, like a stone – (5, 9) Then the last line and the first line are connected with another alliteration/consonance cocktail: Of Ground, or Air, or Ought – Re g ardless grown, (7-8) We've got some alliteration withĪnd then some alliteration mixed with consonance here: The sound-y devices are a bit more erratic in stanza 2. This totally helps set an ominous tone that we need when we're talking about pain. The Nerve s sit ceremoniou s, like Tomb s – The stiff Heart que stion s 'wa s it He, that bore,' And 'Ye sterday, or Centurie s before'? (2-4)Īll these s's give the rest of the quatrain a hissing sound that in our minds makes the whole thing just a wee bit sinister. The next three lines are shot though with the consonance of repeated S sounds within words. Your mouth has to be more open to say it, right? Then we have to press our lips tight for those double Fs, which gives us a sense of closed-off emotions. To us, the repetition of the long A sound gives the reader a feeling of openness of emotion. Assonance is a literary device in which the repetition of similar vowel sounds takes place in two or more words in proximity to each other within a line of.
It's interesting how Emily sets up the two things she's contrasting-a traumatic shock, and the numbness that follows-with these sound-y poetic devices. Yup, "great pain" repeats the long A sound (1). We also can't help but notice that the first line slaps us with some assonance, which is a repetition of vowel sounds within words. The first line has a good example of double Fs:Īfter great pain, a formal feeling comes – (1)
The one we see the most of is probably alliteration, which is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Yeah, we've definitely got sound games in this one.
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