Grade 9 · English · Reading (Poetry: Structure and Style)
Structure: lines, stanzas, rhyme scheme (ABAB, AABB). Devices: imagery, simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, assonance (repeated vowel sound), repetition, irony. Tone is the poet's attitude (joyful, sorrowful, angry). Mood is the feeling created for the reader. Read: 'Drought, you thief of the green / you steal the song from the stream.'