Analysis of Poem

I’ll tell you how the sun rose— 

A ribbon at a time. 

The steeples swam in amethyst, 

The news like squirrels ran. 

The hills untied their bonnets, 

The bobolinks begun. 

Then I said softly to myself, 

“That must have been the sun!” 

But how he set, I know not.

There seemed a purple stile

Which little yellow boys and girls

Were climbing all the while

Till when they reached the other side,

A dominie in gray

Put gently up the evening bars,

And led the flock away.

*dominie – a minister or priest

In line 4 there is an example of

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

I’ll tell you how the sun rose— 

A ribbon at a time. 

The steeples swam in amethyst, 

The news like squirrels ran. 

The hills untied their bonnets, 

The bobolinks begun. 

Then I said softly to myself, 

“That must have been the sun!” 

But how he set, I know not.

There seemed a purple stile

Which little yellow boys and girls

Were climbing all the while

Till when they reached the other side,

A dominie in gray

Put gently up the evening bars,

And led the flock away.

*dominie – a minister or priest

The last stanza is an example of a(n)

• hyperbole

• extended metaphor

• internal rhyme

• slant rhyme

I’ll tell you how the sun rose— 

A ribbon at a time. 

The steeples swam in amethyst, 

The news like squirrels ran. 

The hills untied their bonnets, 

The bobolinks begun. 

Then I said softly to myself, 

“That must have been the sun!” 

But how he set, I know not.

There seemed a purple stile

Which little yellow boys and girls

Were climbing all the while

Till when they reached the other side,

A dominie in gray

Put gently up the evening bars,

And led the flock away.

*dominie – a minister or priest

What is the rhyme scheme?

• aabb

• abcb

• aabb

• no rhyme

I’ll tell you how the sun rose— 

A ribbon at a time. 

The steeples swam in amethyst, 

The news like squirrels ran. 

The hills untied their bonnets, 

The bobolinks begun. 

Then I said softly to myself, 

“That must have been the sun!” 

But how he set, I know not.

There seemed a purple stile

Which little yellow boys and girls

Were climbing all the while

Till when they reached the other side,

A dominie in gray

Put gently up the evening bars,

And led the flock away.

*dominie – a minister or priest

"That must have been the sun!" has an example of

• alliteration

• assonance

• simile

• symbolism

I’ll tell you how the sun rose— 

A ribbon at a time. 

The steeples swam in amethyst, 

The news like squirrels ran. 

The hills untied their bonnets, 

The bobolinks begun. 

Then I said softly to myself, 

“That must have been the sun!” 

But how he set, I know not.

There seemed a purple stile

Which little yellow boys and girls

Were climbing all the while

Till when they reached the other side,

A dominie in gray

Put gently up the evening bars,

And led the flock away.

*dominie – a minister or priest

"Which little yellow boys and girls" includes an example of

• symbolism

• end rhyme

• alliteration

• consonance

I’ll tell you how the sun rose— 

A ribbon at a time. 

The steeples swam in amethyst, 

The news like squirrels ran. 

The hills untied their bonnets, 

The bobolinks begun. 

Then I said softly to myself, 

“That must have been the sun!” 

But how he set, I know not.

There seemed a purple stile

Which little yellow boys and girls

Were climbing all the while

Till when they reached the other side,

A dominie in gray

Put gently up the evening bars,

And led the flock away.

*dominie – a minister or priest

The speaker's tone is

• inspired happiness

•  frustrated, but soothing

•  depressed

•  loving

I’ll tell you how the sun rose— 

A ribbon at a time. 

The steeples swam in amethyst, 

The news like squirrels ran. 

The hills untied their bonnets, 

The bobolinks begun. 

Then I said softly to myself, 

“That must have been the sun!” 

But how he set, I know not.

There seemed a purple stile

Which little yellow boys and girls

Were climbing all the while

Till when they reached the other side,

A dominie in gray

Put gently up the evening bars,

And led the flock away.

*dominie – a minister or priest

Sensory imagery is used in its

• sound and visuals

•  taste and touch

• visuals and smell

• visuals and touch

I’ll tell you how the sun rose— 

A ribbon at a time. 

The steeples swam in amethyst, 

The news like squirrels ran. 

The hills untied their bonnets, 

The bobolinks begun. 

Then I said softly to myself, 

“That must have been the sun!” 

But how he set, I know not.

There seemed a purple stile

Which little yellow boys and girls

Were climbing all the while

Till when they reached the other side,

A dominie in gray

Put gently up the evening bars,

And led the flock away.

*dominie – a minister or priest

This poem captures

•  a distant memory

• 
  a frozen moment in time

• the sun coming up and going down

• day turning to night

A noiseless patient spider,

I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,

Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,

It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,

Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you O my soul where you stand,

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,

Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,

Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,

Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul

In Whitman's poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider," the speaker _____?

• compares his or her own soul to the spider's activities.

• watches a spider make a web.

• sneaks up on a spider and kill it.

• does A & B.

A noiseless patient spider,

I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,

Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,

It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,

Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

And you O my soul where you stand,

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,

Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,

Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,

Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul

The second stanza implies that the speaker is like _____?

• a spider.

• a bird.

• an unknown observer.

• the poet.