Textuality » 4LSUB InteractingEBean - THE SUN RISING
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The Sun Rising by John Donne Starting from the layout, the poem is organized into three stanzas, with ten lines each. The rhyme pattern is A B B A (enclosed rhyme), then C D C D (alternate rhyme) and at the end E E (rhyming couplet). The metre and the rhyme pattern are regular, but there isn't a specific name for this form of poem. The three stanzas are made up of three four-syllable lines (lines 1, 5 and 6), one two-syllable line (2), and six five-syllable lines (3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 10). In all lines the stress pattern is iambic. The speaking voice makes great use of rhetorical figures. From the first stanza the speaking voice uses a personification to refer to the Sun. This attribuation of human features to inanimate objects continues for the entire poem. Antoher rhetorical figure is the apostrophe: in the lines three and for of the first stanza and in the first and second one lindes of the second one, the speaking voice adresses his questions (rhetorical questions, because they have not got an answer) to the Sun, an inanimate thing. In the line 8 of the first stanza the speaking voice call the farmer ''ants'', this is a metaphor (a replacement of a proper term with a figurative one); maybe he do it to underline the productivity of peasants. In the second stanza, on line 13: ''I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink'' is an hyperbole, a rhetorical figure that alters the quantity to underline the meaning of the concept. During the whole poem there is climax, that undelines the increase of the speaking voice, and his lover's love.
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