hi guys,

my english teacher has set me the task to find a poem to aynalyze, and list enjambment, personifications, similes, metaphors. Last time i did tiger tiger- william blake and the sea- james reeves please help me. please post any suggestions.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/11/2006 08:31PM by lg.

Loss And Gain
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When I compare
What I have lost with what I have gained,
What I have missed with what attained,
Little room do I find for pride.

I am aware
How many days have been idly spent;
How like an arrow the good intent
Has fallen short or been turned aside.

But who shall dare
To measure loss and gain in this wise?
Defeat may be victory in disguise;
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Les

The Early Morning
by Hilaire Belloc

The moon on the one hand, the dawn on the other:
The moon is my sister, the dawn is my brother.
The moon on my left and the dawn on my right.
My brother, good morning: my sister, good night.

Les

Enjambment is the opposite of end-stopped. That is, the flow continues beyond the end of a particular line. Note the ones above are all end-stopped, usually indicated with a punctuation mark at the end of a line (comma, period, semicolon).

Google for lots and lots of discussion:

[tinyurl.com] />
Here is a poem with all those elements, and one with which all students of poetry ought to be familiar:

[www.cs.rice.edu] />
Will I point out the various needed tropes in it? Nah - have to leave some fun for you, no?

Yeah, right, like I'm clicking on that.

Hugh, if they can't spell awesome, we needn't worry about the validity of their spam site.

Les