it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
EXPLORE W7.5
Draw a Venn diagram to represent the words you chose to describe love, the words used to describe love in the passage from the Bible, and any words you had in common.
Sounds and Music in Poetry
A lot of poetry has musical qualities. Later you will learn about the importance of rhythm and rhyme in more detail. Now we will think about sounds that are similar in poetry. In the Friendship collection you learned about assonance and alliteration (p. 5).
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds near each other. For example: ‘Some say the world will end in fire,/ Some say in ice./ From what I’ve tasted of desire/ I hold with those who favor fire.’ (from ‘Fire and Ice’ by Robert Frost). Notice the repeated ‘I’ sound here.
Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds near each other. For example: ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ (from a poem of the same name by Dylan Thomas). Notice the repeated ‘g’ sound here.
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Now read this tongue twister and pick out any repeated sounds. Try to work out if they are examples of alliteration or assonance (or both perhaps).
Peter Piper
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
D
282 FIRE AND ICE 2
Do you know any other tongue-twisters with alliteration or assonance?
