Yesterday I posted info related to Dickinson’s use of internal rhyme. While exploring that topic, I stumbled across this Reddit page; a Redditor (is that what you call an individual on Reddit?) posed the question, “Favourite internal rhyme poems?” (HERE)
I ran a word search for “Dickinson” on the page, and nothing popped up; however, having recently read a paper comparing a poem by Robert Frost to one by Emily Dickinson, I noticed with interest this statement from one responder: “Check out ‘Birches’ by Robert Frost, it's filled with internal rhymes!”
Soooo...I checked out “Birches” and…"filled with internal rhymes”? Not that I could tell.
I ran a word search for “Dickinson” on the page, and nothing popped up; however, having recently read a paper comparing a poem by Robert Frost to one by Emily Dickinson, I noticed with interest this statement from one responder: “Check out ‘Birches’ by Robert Frost, it's filled with internal rhymes!”
Soooo...I checked out “Birches” and…"filled with internal rhymes”? Not that I could tell.
I re-read the poem a couple of times – was I missing something?
I then ran a Google-search on “internal rhyme in Robert Frost’s Birches,” and I found this (HERE):
“‘Birches’ does not have a set rhyme scheme. And while there are several moments in which the speaker uses internal slant rhymes, even these instances are few and far between. In fact, there aren't any rhymes at all until line 12, when the speaker creates an internal slant rhyme between the word ‘heaps’ and the word ‘sweep.’ Although this is a subtle rhyme, there are so few rhymes in the surrounding lines that it actually has a very noticeable effect, ultimately making line 12 sound particularly musical.”
"Birches" was a bust when it came to internal rhyme.
I knew that when I discussed internal rhymes I would recommend Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” as a great example, and then I discovered this, “10 Best Internal Rhymes Examples” (HERE) – and “The Raven” is there in the top spot!
Scroll down to #9 on the page, and there’s Dickinson – with a poem I wrote about just a few days ago, HERE.
I then ran a Google-search on “internal rhyme in Robert Frost’s Birches,” and I found this (HERE):
“‘Birches’ does not have a set rhyme scheme. And while there are several moments in which the speaker uses internal slant rhymes, even these instances are few and far between. In fact, there aren't any rhymes at all until line 12, when the speaker creates an internal slant rhyme between the word ‘heaps’ and the word ‘sweep.’ Although this is a subtle rhyme, there are so few rhymes in the surrounding lines that it actually has a very noticeable effect, ultimately making line 12 sound particularly musical.”
"Birches" was a bust when it came to internal rhyme.
I knew that when I discussed internal rhymes I would recommend Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” as a great example, and then I discovered this, “10 Best Internal Rhymes Examples” (HERE) – and “The Raven” is there in the top spot!
Scroll down to #9 on the page, and there’s Dickinson – with a poem I wrote about just a few days ago, HERE.
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