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Sound and Meter: Reading a Poem Aloud — Homework
Read "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (Robert Frost) aloud at least once before answering.
- 1.Mark the stress pattern in "The WOODS are LOVEly, DARK and DEEP" and name the meter.
- 2.Define alliteration and assonance and give one original example of each.
- 3.Explain why Frost might break his interlocking rhyme pattern in the final stanza to rhyme all four lines together.
- 4.In four or more sentences, explain what the exact repetition of the final line suggests about the speaker's state of mind.
- 5.Label the rhyme scheme of the first stanza (know/though/here/snow) using letters.
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