Topic 3 (session B) - Patterns, Deviations, Style and Meaning > Parallelism, deviation & 'The Brain - is wider than the Sky -' > Task D - Phonemic structure

Parallelism, deviation and 'The Brain - is wider than the Sky -'

Task D - Phonemic structure

Are there any patterns of rhyme, alliteration and assonance which you feel should be commented on (i.e. are reasonably obvious and can be related interestingly to meaning/effect)?

The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside -

The Brain is deeper than the sea -
For - hold them - Blue to Blue -
The one the other will absorb -
As Sponges - Buckets do -

The Brain is just the weight of God -
For - Heft them - Pound for Pound -
And they will differ - if they do -
As Syllable from Sound -

(Emily Dickinson, c. 1892)

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