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... rose . ( Simile ) O , my love resembles a red , red rose . ( Simile ) O , my love is redder than a rose . ( Simile ) O , my love is a red , red rose . ( Metaphor ) O , my love has red petals and sharp thorns . ( Implied metaphor ) O , I ...
... rose . ( Simile ) O , my love resembles a red , red rose . ( Simile ) O , my love is redder than a rose . ( Simile ) O , my love is a red , red rose . ( Metaphor ) O , my love has red petals and sharp thorns . ( Implied metaphor ) O , I ...
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X. J. Kennedy. ROBERT BURNS ( 1759-1796 ) A Red , Red Rose O , my luve is like a red , red rose , That's newly sprung in June ; O , my luve is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune . As fair art thou , my bonny lass , So deep in ...
X. J. Kennedy. ROBERT BURNS ( 1759-1796 ) A Red , Red Rose O , my luve is like a red , red rose , That's newly sprung in June ; O , my luve is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune . As fair art thou , my bonny lass , So deep in ...
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... Roses and St. Clears I met an old man all eyes and ears ; Hands trembling twigs , head snowing snow , He had no mortal ... rose sober , as did I. Something was smoking in the sky : " Beware yourselves ! my dears , my dears , Between Red ...
... Roses and St. Clears I met an old man all eyes and ears ; Hands trembling twigs , head snowing snow , He had no mortal ... rose sober , as did I. Something was smoking in the sky : " Beware yourselves ! my dears , my dears , Between Red ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats