package unit2randomsentences; /* The last verse of a well-known nursery rhyme: This is the farmer sowing his corn That kept the rooster that crowed in the morn That waked the judge all shaven and shorn That married the man all tattered and torn That kissed the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog That worried the cat That chased the rat That ate the cheese That lay in the house that Jack built. Some rules that capture the syntax of this verse: ::= [ and ] ::= this is [ ] the house that Jack built ::= the [ ] that ::= farmer | rooster | judge | man | maiden | cow | dog | cat | cheese ::= kept …show more content…
All the verses of the rhyme can be generated, plus a lot of sentences that make no sense (but still follow the syntax). Note that an optional item like [ ] has a chance of being used, depending on the value of some randomly generated number. The program generates and outputs one random sentence every three seconds until it is halted (for example, by typing Control-C in the terminal window where it is running). */ public class SimpleRandomSentences { static final String[] nouns = { "farmer", "rooster", "judge", "man", "maiden", "cow", "dog", "cat", "cheese" }; static final String[] verbs = { "kept", "waked", "married", "milked", "tossed", "chased", "lay in" }; static final String[] modifiers = { "that crowed in the morn", "sowing his corn", "all shaven and shorn", "all forlorn", "with the crumpled horn" }; public static void main(String[] args) { while (true) { randomSentence();
Christopher Morley’s poem “Nursery Rhymes for The Tender-Hearted” is a simple poem it is a parody to the nursery rhyme “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”. This poem is about a roach that is in the house. The speaker is the roach he is telling everything that happened while he was running and everything in the pantry. In “Nursery Rhymes for The Tender-Hearted” there was a roach who was very sneaky, fast and smart.
The sonf has a definite rhyme scheme which lends itself well to the theme of the poem.
C. Connotations:The poem is written in free verse with no rhyme or rhythm to be
Rhymes are two or more words that have the same ending sound. Songwriters and poets often times use rhymes to help their piece flow better, or keep the audience or readers engaged. Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” is filled with rhymes, with a rhyme in almost every single line: “Brando, the King and I, and the Catcher In The Rye / Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new Queen / Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye” (line 6-8). Billy Joel uses the rhymes to move from one topic to the next, and the song is even in chronological order from 1950 to 1989. The rhyme schemes of the song are end rhymes as well as perfect rhymes. On the other hand, the poem is completely free verse, or without a single rhyme. This makes the poem less artistic and harder to remain engaged and interested. In addition to rhyming, allusions are another way of displaying artistic
In addition, the rhyme of the first two stanzas goes A B B A and C D D C respectively; however it is E F F in third stanza and G E G in the fourth stanza. Besides the end rhymes, there are the internal rhymes such as the words; “fields” (1) and “ewes” (2) and also “faintly” (3) that rhymes with “silently” (4).
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The poems that most interested me are written by Robert Frost; Fire and Ice, Nothing Gold Can Stay, and Design. In these poem Frost uses the literary such as symbolism and rhyme scheme. Symbolism is used to provide the reader with a meaning other than the literary meaning of object or idea. Rhyme scheme is used to help the reader read and understand the poem. By using these two literary devices and more Frost has achieved many awards for his work.
coheres to the subject of nonconformity in the rhyme scheme. Although it appears to be
where every third line had to rhyme and the last two lines also had to
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal [but] which the reader recognizes as his own." (Salvatore Quasimodo). There is something about the human spirit that causes us to rejoice in shared experience. We can connect on a deep level with our fellow man when we believe that somehow someone else understands us as they relate their own joys and hardships; and perhaps nowhere better is this relationship expressed than in that of the poet and his reader. For the current assignment I had the privilege (and challenge) of writing an imitation of William Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 87". This poem touched a place in my heart because I have actually given this sonnet to someone before as it then communicated my thoughts and feelings far better than I could. For this reason, Sonnet 87 was an easy choice for this project, although not quite so easy an undertaking as I endeavored to match Shakespeare’s structure and bring out his themes through similar word choice.
In the folk ballad, “The Holy Well”, the poet uses thirteen quatrains and establishes a ABCB rhyme scheme, with a
Although the poem has brought up many controversial ideas to some, the best way to find its true idea is to examine its context. In stanza two, verse one and two it states that “[They] romped until the pans [fell off],” which helps emphasize the playful action taking place and not an abusive fight or action taking place towards a child. Although people can infer that it was a fight between the father and son because “romped” can have two different definitions for it could mean play roughly or energetic, but as most seemed to see it as a fighting or hitting action taking place. For instance, in stanza two, verse three and four it states that “mother’s countenance,” and “could not unfrown…” illustrates how the mother was upset but also slightly
Through the depicted rhyme scheme of ABABCDCD, the audience feels a placated chaos. The lack of consistency parallels the tendency to blunt the truth while still maintaining a pattern of pleasing schemes to the hearer’s ears. Similarly, the end rhymes, such as “slant” and “delight” and “eased” and “blind” are not perfect rhymes but slant rhymes, still pleasing to the ear of the intended flatter-ee, but not a true (perfect)
Some poems, such as a sonnet, are written in a rhyme scheme and contain a total of 14 lines which are known as stanzas. William Shakespeare is very know for his collection of sonnets, 154 of them to be precise. In Shakespeare 's sonnets he told stories about love and mystery using rhythm of words usually in abab cdcd rhyming form. Not all poems have to rhyme though, free verse poems have no rhyme scheme and no specific form in which they should be written, such as the poem "Directive" by Robert Frost. There are 55 different forms of poetry, so choosing which type to write is all up to your preferences weather you want short, long, rhyming, free write, or
The rhyme scheme follows a standard AA, BB, CC, etc., couplet pattern. A few of the lines are irregular however. Lines 23 and 24 rhyme "lie" with "eternity," and lines 27 and 28 rhyme "try" with "virginity." It is interesting to not that lie rhymes with try, just as eternity rhymes with virginity. Marvell used this tec...