It’s a Woman’s World | Style
Rhyme
Boland uses full or exact rhyme (rhymes in which the two words have different initial consonants followed by identical stressed vowel sounds) as well as slant or half rhyme (only the final consonant sounds of the two words are similar, but the preceding vowel and consonant sounds are different) to differing effects in the poem. In several sections, she uses exact rhyme to emphasize the statement being expressed, as in the first stanza with “life” and “knife” and in the sixth and seventh stanzas with “time” and “crime.” These instances of exact...
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