Sounds for Description (an essay about Prosody)

In poetry, many poets use prosody to bring their writing to life. rhythmic pattern is the pronunciation of a poem, and it usually includes elements such as sound, rhyme, beginning rhyme, assonance, onomatopoeia, rhythm, stress, and meter. These effect can take poetry to a completely unlike level, beyond only imagery. In the poem, The Word Plum, by Helen Chasin, examples of alliteration and onomatopoeia are employ to bring her subject, a fairly, to life.

In the prototypal line, Chasin begins with a very basic description of the word plum: The word plum is delicious. The interesting thing is, shes non even describing the fruit, but the word. The word delicious has an l, as does the word plum, and I see this pisss a harmony between the noun and adjective. The c and s of delicious creates slenderly of a juicy sound; as a practiced plum, being eaten, is generally slurped with each bite.

In the second line, onomatopoeia is introduced with the both verbs, pout and push, luxury of. Pout and push are enormous for the beginning of that second line because, following delicious, they create a new sound, yet they begin to describe wherefore its delicious. Alliteration is also introduced with these two words, and they are not capitalized, which creates a balance; two verbs, four letters each, not capitalized, and both beginning with ps.



And then, luxury begins with an l, which begins to piece the word plum.

In the third line, again without capitalization, self-love, and tasting murmur, Chasin completes the spelling of plum. Again, she uses alliteration with the letter s to create that juicy sound, self-love/savoring. Perhaps, also, murmur is used to create somewhat of a Mmm effect.

In the fourth line, she creates a new alliteration broad(a) in the mouth and dropping. The fs could...

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