Putting it all together…Putting it all together……by taking it all apart

How to read a poem: How to read a poem: Read subjectively and holisticallyThen read analytically and

atomically

Some things to look for: Some things to look for: Rhythm and metreRhyme schemeSound patternsImagesFigurative language

A Slumber Did my Spirit A Slumber Did my Spirit SealSealA SLUMBER did my spirit seal;   I had no human fears:  She seem'd a thing that could not feel    The touch of earthly years.    No motion has she now, no force;          5  She neither hears nor sees;  Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course    With rocks, and stones, and trees.

‘‘Jabberwocky’, by Lewis Jabberwocky’, by Lewis CarrollCarrollMetre: Iambic tetrameterdaDUM daDUM daDUM daDUMLast line of each stanza: usually trimeterUse of assonance and alliteration:

playfulEnd rhyme: all stanzas abab, except 3

and 5, 6Predictable rhythm and rhyme but with

varietyOnomatopoeia: burbled, galumphing,

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