... feelings of sympathy from the reader with smooth transitions from word to word. Many sound devices are used in The Chimney Sweeper. The main rhyme scheme in this poem is AABB with end-rhymes, the ends of each couplet rhyme with each other. The only exception to this is where two eye rhymes are included in the poem. One is in the fifth stanza ... at the ends of the first couplet, they visually seem as if they would rhyme: "behind" and "wind," 3 but they in fact do not. The other eye ... rhyme is in the first couplet of the final stanza: "dark" and "work" "Ibid., p. 156" look as though t...

• Word Count: 1529
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... parents towards the life of the newborn. Not only do the two poems have different perspectives and diction, they are also constructed differently. Although both poems have two stanzas, the rhyme schemes are different. In "Infant Joy", Blake uses a rhyme scheme of ABCDAC for the first stanza and ABCDDC for the second. On the other hand, Blake uses a regular AABB ... rhyme throughout the whole poem in "Infant Sorrow". What is more, on Blake's original plate for "Infant Joy", there are two flowers; the smaller one is closed ... ; from Songs of Innocence and "Nurse's Song" from Songs of Ex...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate