There was an old man at the Cape

Who made himself garments of crape

When asked “Will they tear?”

He replied “Here and there,

But they keep such a beautiful shape!”

rhyme occurring at the ends of verse lines; most common rhyme form.

The splendour falls on castle walls

And snowy summits old in story:

The long light shakes across the lakes

And the wild cataract leaps in glory.

repetition of two or more vowel sounds within a line.

Burnt the fire of thine eyes

(William Blake, “The Tiger”)

And I do smile, such cordial light

(Emily Dickinson, “My Life Had Stood, A Loaded Gun”)

Bright black-eyed creature, brushed with brown.

(Robert Frost, “To a Moth Seen in Winter”)

The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard

(Robert Frost, “Out, Out”)

All the world’s a stage

(William Shakespeare, As You Like It)

Death is the broom

I take in my hands

To sweep the world clean.

(Langston Hughes, “War”)

The holy time is quiet as a nun

(William Wordsworth, “On the Beach at Calais”)

When it comes, the landscape listens,

Shadows hold their breath.

(Emily Dickinson,

“A Certain Slant of Light”)

Love you ten years before the Flood,

And you should, if you please, refuse

Till the conversion of the Jews.

(Andrew Marvell, “To his Coy Mistress”)

Our hands were firmly cemented.

(John Donne, “The Ecstasy”)

the use of words to represent things, actions, or ideas by sensory description.

Night after Night

Her purple traffic

Strews the land with Opal Bales—

Merchantmen—poise upon Horizons—

Dip—and vanish like Orioles!

(Emily Dickinson, “This Is the Land Where Sunset Washes”)

contradictory terms brought together to express a paradox for strong effect.

Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!

Dove-feathered raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!

(William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

When we returned from vacation, I said, "There's no place like home!"

Grammar rules seem to be the Achilles heel of many 8th grade students.