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Parallelism, deviation and 'The Brain - is wider than the Sky -'
Our answer for task D - Phonemic structure
The rhyme scheme (an extended kind of phonemic parallelism) ABCB for
each of the three stanzas, and this repeated pattern helps to underline
the fact that the three stanzas are each single sentences and parallel
one another in interesting ways.
In the first stanza, 'wider' and 'sky'
in line 1 are connected by assonance (another form of phonemic parallelism),
thus underlining the comparative grammatical structure which is so important
in the poem. This assonantal pattern is matched by 'deeper'
and 'sea' in similar positions in stanza 2. But
stanza 3, the one which deviates semantically and grammatically from
the other two, also deviates phonemically by not having this assonantal
pattern.
On the other hand, stanza 3 has a significant /s/ alliteration in the
last line, between 'syllable' and 'sound',
a phonemic parallelism which helps underline the point that we made,
when commenting on other linguistic levels, about the inextricable connection
between the two concepts (and hence, by extension between the concepts
of the brain/mind and God with which they are being compared).
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