Name
Date
. . . Soft Rains / Meeting at Night / The Sound of Night
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Text Analysis
Sound Devices
Common sound devices used in poetry include the following:
• rhyme, the repetition of sounds at the ends of words. When the rhyme occurs at the
ends of lines it is called end rhyme: The table bare/of silverware.
• alliteration, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words: the strange
and solemn statue
• onomatopoeia, the use of words that imitate sounds: a chirping bird
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Title
End Rhyme
“There Will
Come Soft
Rains”
ground/sound (lines 1
and 2)
Alliteration
. . . Soft Rains / Meeting at
Night / The Sound of Night
Directions: Use the chart to record examples of each kind of sound device from the three
poems. One example has been done for you.
Onomatopoeia
“Meeting at
Night”
“The Sound of
Night”
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