Playing and Poetry

Part One

Rhythm- a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element, etc., at regular or irregular intervals in the same or a modified form.

Rhyme scheme- the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc.

Alliteration- The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in "on scrolls of silver snowy sentences" (Hart Crane). Modern alliteration is predominantly consonantal; certain literary traditions, such as Old English verse, also alliterate using vowel sounds.

Anaphora- repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.

Consonance- correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.

Assonance- rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence.

Part Two

Love Like Sand

I felt love my hands
They slip through my fingers
Like grains of fine sand
Parts of a whole shattered apart
Burring in the sun
Sad lonely parts
Until the tide washes
And the waves join whats broken
Making a blanket of one
Until the tide recedes
And then brittle
They fall through my fingers

Bye, bye.

Love Poem

Love and Death



Shall we, too, rise forgetful from our sleep,

And shall my soul that lies within your hand

Remember nothing, as the blowing sand

Forgets the palm where long blue shadows creep

When winds along the darkened desert sweep?



Or would it still remember, tho' it spanned

A thousand heavens, while the planets fanned

The vacant ether with their voices deep?

Soul of my soul, no word shall be forgot,

Nor yet alone, beloved, shall we see



The desolation of extinguished suns,

Nor fear the void wherethro' our planet runs,

For still together shall we go and not

Fare forth alone to front eternity.

by: Sara Teasdale

I believe Love and Death, writen by Sara Teasdale, is mostly talking about not forgetting love, maybe between her and someone else or just the thought of forgeting the feel of love. I think she's just pondering losing love and wishing to keep it, then vowing to keep it.
The metaphor I found was "the desolation of extinguished suns.." This is comparing their love to a extinguished suns.

K...bye.