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dgunderson14
dgunderson14
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High School - 9th Grade

Describe the form or pattern of the poem "A Poison Tree."

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Posted by dgunderson14 on Tuesday April 8, 2008 at 7:59 PM and tagged with a poison tree, form, pattern, poem.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
    College - Freshman

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    "A Poison Tree" is sixteen lines long. It is made up of rhymed couplets—the first two lines rhyme, then the next two, and so on. Each pair of lines advances the action of the poem—the first two set up one "fork" of the action, the next two another "fork" and so on. This proceeds through the first twelve lines. Then there's a break, and the last four lines form a unit.

     

    There are secondary structures—the repetitions of "I," and of "and," for example.

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    Posted by gbeatty on Thursday April 10, 2008 at 6:18 PM