rent two people who grew up in the same household can be. “Under her maiden name/ Maud and Ma and Papa…” (10-11). In addition to alliteration and assonance, poets create sound patterns with rhyme. The conventional way to describe a poem’s rhyme scheme is to chart rhyming words that appear at the ends of lines. In Brooks’ poem the rhyme scheme is abcb, defe which reinforces the way two things can begin the same, but change as time goes on. Naturally, rhyme does not have to be subtle to enrich a poem. An obvious rhyme scheme like the one in Bradstreet’s poem is aabb, ccdd can communicate meaning by forcing attention on a relationship between two people that are not normally linked. The poem’s theme speaks of the husband and wife becoming one, the poem’s rhyme scheme is of two consecutive lines belonging together and having one sound.Rhyme can also be classified according to the position of the rhyming syllables in a line of verse. Bradstreet’s poem contains beginning rhyme, Brooks’ poem, on the other hand, contains only end rhyme. “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold/ My love is such that rivers cannot quench/ Thy love is such I can in no way repay”(5, 7, 9). “Her girls struck out from home/ Her fine-tooth comb” (14, 16). Poets, too, create rhyme by using repeated words and phrases. “Sadie scraped life/ with a fine-toothed comb” (3-4) and “Sadie had left as heritage/ her fine-tooth comb” (15-16). The repeated phrases “Sadie” and “Maud”, which shift from one subject to the other and back again “Maud went to college/ Sadie stayed at home” (1-2). The poem has a singing rhythm that resembles a song that children play to. The remembrance of carefree childhood ironically contrasts with the adulthood that both Sadie and Maud now face as they grow up: Sadie stays home and has two children out ...
