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Laura And Goblin Men Literary Devices

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From a literary standpoint, this segment contains many telling devices. The meter varies from five to nine syllables, displaying the physical and emotional insecurity of Laura and Lizzie. The poem’s rhyme scheme is such that the end of every stanza carries right on into the next; the first two lines of most stanzas complete the rhyme of the final two lines of the preceding stanza. This makes the reader feel carried away. As stable as each stanza begins, those last hanging two lines require you to continue reading in order to get the satisfaction of that last rhyme. The sense of pull caused entirely by desire, not force, parallels the sisters’ internal urge to eat the fruit of the goblin men. Assonance and alliteration at the beginning establishes
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