Rhyme And Rythm in Blakes A Divine Image Essay -- Blake Divine Image

Rhyme And Rythm in Blakes A Divine Image In A Divine Image, Blake uses several techniques and literary devices, to transmit his thoughts nearly social injustice, cruelty and human nature, Rhyme and rhythm are twain of the main features in this poem this poem is the rhythm affect the whole mood, life and meaning of the poem. The poet has chosen different methods to give the poem specific sounds that affect the pace and structure of the rhythm.The structure of the first stanza helps us understand the relationships between the quaternion aspects of human nature presented, cruelty, jealousy, terror and secrecy. The first and third lines start with the main intelligence service, while in the second and fourth ones the words come preceded by the word And. This makes the ratifier connect cruelty with terror and jealousy with secrecy automatically. We can notice that the stress of the lines in this first stanza falls onto the main word, giving an punctuate effect. Unlike many other Bl ake poems, such as The Tyger or The Lamb we cannot find rhyming couplets in this stanza, but the rhyming and stressing effect is enough for the reader to tie the ideas together. This effect is strengthened by the repetition of the word human in every line and the repetition of the y ending sounds in lines one, two and four.The structure of the second stanza differs from the structure of the first one. We notice that each of the lines provide an answer in a symmetrical way to each one in the first s...