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"I Carry You Heart With Me" By: E.E. Cummings
"I Carry You Heart With Me" By: E.E. Cummings
By : E.E. Cummings
“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere”
Rhyme Scheme:
Free verse
Alliteration: Alliteration is
the repetition of consonant sounds in the
same line such as the sound of /n/ in
“higher than soul can hope, or mind can
hide” and /r/ sound in “i carry your heart
with me (i carry it in).”
Enjambment: It is defined as a thought in
a verse that does not come to an end at
a line break; rather, it continues to the
next line.
Parallelism: Parallelism refers to using
elements in sentences that are
grammatically similar or identical in
structure, sound, meanings, or meter.
Cummings has used this device in lines
eight and nine,
“and it’s you are whatever a moon has
always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is
you.”
Consonance: Consonance is the
repetition of consonant sounds in the
same line such as the sound of /ing/ “by
only me is your doing,my darling”.
Assonance: Assonance is the repetition
of vowel sounds in the same line such
as the sound of /u/ in “no world (for
beautiful you are my world, my true)”.
Personification: Personification is to
accord human attributes to non-human
things. Cummings has used personification
in the last line of the second stanza “and
whatever a sun will always sing is you”, as
if the sun is human and it can sing.
Imagery: Imagery is used to make the
readers perceive things with their five
senses.
“and whatever a sun will always sing is you”,
“here is the root of the root and the bud of the
bud” and “and the sky of the sky of a tree
called life.”
Hyperbole: Hyperbole is a figure of
speech in which the writer purposely
exaggerates things to an extreme.
“I carry your heart” is an over-
exaggeration .