Friday, October 9, 2015

Can you help me to find an example of slant rhyme in the poem "I died for Beauty" by Emily Dickinson?

Slant rhyme is a poetic technique used a lot by Dickinson
in her poetic works. It is also known as a 'half rhyme,' which points towards the
definition. A slant rhyme is therefore when two words are made to nearly rhyme, but not
quite. It is not a full rhyme, when two words rhyme completely, but the similarity of
some sounds make a partial concordance in the sound, that has the effect of producing a
broken or unsatisfactory link between the two words. In the poem you have identified,
you might want to think about how 'rooms' and 'names' are shown to be a slant rhyme in
the final stanza:


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And so, as kinsmen met a night,
We
talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And
covered up our names.



Note
how the same 'ms' sound is present in both, but the vowel difference clearly shows that
this is not a full rhyme. Thus the difference between the two corpses is highlighted by
the slant rhyme.

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