Current research journal of philological

CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL 
SCIENCES ISSN – 2767-3758 
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In this, as All, prevail - 
Assent - and you are sane - 
Demur - you're straightway dangerous - 
And handled with a Chain – 
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is Samuel 
Taylor Coleridge's longest poem, featuring 
rhythmic groupings of alliteration throughout. In 
the following excerpt, cheered/cleared/kirk, 
sun/sea/shone, beat/breast/bassoon, red/rose, 
and merry/minstrelsy are examples of 
alliterative devices [2, 2]. For example: 
'The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, 
Merrily did we drop 
Below the kirk, below the hill, 
Below the lighthouse top. 
The Sun came up upon the left, 
Out of the sea came he! 
And he shone bright, and on the right 
Went down into the sea. 
Higher and higher every day, 
Till over the mast at noon-' 
The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, 
For he heard the loud bassoon. 
The bride hath paced into the hall, 
Red as a rose is she; 
Nodding their heads before her goes 
The merry minstrelsy. 
Thomas Hardy creates rhythm in his poem "In a 
Whispering Garden" by combining several 
examples of alliteration, such as the "s" sound in 
spirit, speaking, spell, spot, splendid, and soul [6, 
1]. "Gaunt gray gallery" is another alliterative 
phrase that allows the reader to immediately 
conjure a visual image of the poem's setting [14, 
1] 
That whisper takes the voice 
Of a Spirit, speaking to me, 
Close, but invisible, 
And throws me under a spell 
At the kindling vision it brings; 
And for a moment I rejoice, 
And believe in transcendent things 
That would make of this muddy earth 
A spot for the splendid birth 
Of everlasting lives, 
Whereto no night arrives; 
Rhyme is the repetition of identical or similar 
terminal sound combinations of words. There 
are two types of rhyme: full rhyme and 
incomplete rhyme. Dissevering and consolidating 
are two main functions of rhyme. 
Rhyme schemes are described using letters of the 
alphabet, so that each line of verse that 
corresponds to a specific type of rhyme used in 
the poem is assigned a letter, beginning with "A." 
For example, a four-line poem in which the first 
line rhymes with the third, and the second line 
rhymes with the fourth has the rhyme scheme 
ABAB, as in the lines below from the poem “To 
Anthea, who may Command him Anything” by 
Robert Herrick: 
Bid me to weep, and I will weep 
While I have eyes to see 
And having none, yet I will keep 
A heart to weep for thee 
Each rhyme in the famous sonnet "When I 
consider how my light is spent" by Milton is an 
example of perfect rhyme (words whose stressed 
syllables share identical sounds, as well as all 

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CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2(10): 98-
103, October 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37547/philological-crjps-02-10-19 
ISSN 2767-3758 
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