There are many poetic elements in Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husand" for example, the first three lines use repetition and parallel structures to achieve the effect of internal rhyme. In addition, the fourth line sums up the first three by asking all women who read the poem: is your marriage as happy as mine ?

In lines 5 through 8 she speaks of her love using alliteration of the same consonant sounds, such as, prize, mines, gold and hold, riches and rivers.

In the lines 8 through 11 she speaks of her husband's love through alliteration, for example, repay and pray, persevere and ever (internal rhyme).

The parallel construction between the phrases "while we live in love" and "when we live no more" is so effective in creating a bridge between life and death, as if the poet is saying that love exists in life and in death.

Bradstreet's poem features numerous poetic elements. First, it is structured in rhyming couplets, pairs of lines that rhyme. The twelve lines of the poem consist of six couplets. Here is an example of the first couplet:

If ever two were one, then surely we.

If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

The following two lines form a second couplet, and this pattern is repeated throughout the poem.

The poem also employs both perfect rhyme (exact rhyme) and off rhyme, also known as slant rhyme. In the lines above, we/thee rhyme perfectly to the ear. In another couplet, however the rhyme is a slant rhyme:

My love is such that rivers cannot quench,

Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.

In this couplet, "quench" and "recompense" almost rhyme, but they do not rhyme perfectly to the ear. It should be noted, also, that the rhymes in the poem are end rhymes--the rhyming words appear at the ends of the lines.

Another interesting poetic element is the employment of hyperbole. In saying that her love is so great that rivers themselves cannot "quench" it, Bradstreet is emphasizing the depth and degree of her love through overstatement. Connotative meaning is also found in this hyperbole. Water is an element that quenches thirst and puts out fire; thus, the hyperbole suggests that Bradstreet's love is very passionate.

List three poetic elements in Anne Bradstreet's "To my Dear and Loving Husband" and a specific example of each.

Bradstreet begins "To My Dear and Loving Husband," which in another format, is essentially a love letter to her husband with a rhetorical or literary device:

If ever two were one, then surely we

If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;

If ever wife was happy in a man. . . .

In rhetorical terms, this is called anaphora, that is, the repetition of initial words or phrases, a very common technique in poetry.  In Bradstreet's poem, the "If-then" construction also sets up part of a syllogism in logic: "if this is true, then this is true."

The fourth through sixth lines are based on a perfectly apt metaphor as Bradstreet writes "Compare with me, ye women . . . I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold/ Or all the riches that the East doth hold."  A fairly conventional metaphor, Bradstreet ranks her husband's love higher than gold and uncountable riches.

In a second use of appropriate metaphor, in line seven, Bradstreet argues that her love "is such that rivers cannot quench," again reinforcing the idea of love that is stronger than natural elements and worth more than the most valuable element on earth.

In the next two lines, Bradstreet uses another metaphor, this time from the world of commerce:

Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense.

Thy love is such I can in no way repay. . .

To this point, Bradstreet has used a conventional, but useful, rhetorical technique to open her poem effectively with repetition that carries the poem forward, and she has used two metaphors to compare her desire for her husband's love as greater than the desire for immense wealth (gold) and used an additional metaphor that compares the exchange of love to a commercial exchange.

Bradstreet concludes the poem with the same use of anaphora--"then while we live"--that perfectly balances this short poem and, more important, urges her husband to love so powerfully and consistently that they their love will continue after they are gone.

The last two lines reinforce the depth of Bradstreet's love because they imply that a powerful husband-wife love will transcend death, and as such, constitute a slightly unconventional view from a Puritan woman of the strength of personal love.

Can you give me three poetic elements and examples in Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband"?Please give specific elements and examples. Thank You

This has been discussed before. I'd write more but company's here!

Can you give me three poetic elements and examples in Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband"?Please give specific elements and examples. Thank You

In Bradstreet's poem, one can find many examples of poetic elements.  One such element lies in structure.  There are 12 lines, and each line rhymes with its subsequent one, creating a form of six couplets. The rhyme scheme is A-A-B-B and so on in this manner until the end of the poem.  The rhythm of the poem is also very consistent throughout the poem, almost being able to be clearly felt and identified through merely reading the poem aloud.  In terms of imagery, Bradstreet uses comparative language to express the devotion of the speaker's love.  This can be seen in line 5, when the speaker compares the felt love as one more valuable than a collection of gold.  Similar sentiments can be seen throughout the poem, but in particular through lines 6 and 7.

What are several poetic elements in Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband," and what are some examples of them?

Bradstreet's poem is rich in poetic elements. Consisting of twelve lines, it is structured in six rhyming couplets. Some of the couplets feature perfect rhymes, such as we/thee in lines one and two and man/can in lines three and four.

Approximate rhymes are also present, as quench/recompense in lines seven and eight and persevere/ever in lines eleven and twelve.

The poem also employs hyperbole, as evident in this line: "My love is such that rivers cannot quench." Finally, the poem is written in iambic pentameter; each line consists of five feet, with each poetic foot adhering to the weak/strong pattern of rhythm.

What are some of the poetic elements in Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband"?

The first poetic element (I’m more used to the term “poetic device”) appears in the repetition of the phrase “If ever..., then...” in the first three lines and, in a different form, in the final two lines. This repetition is called anaphora.

A second poetic element that you might point out is the fixed rhyme scheme. The poem is organized around rhyming couplets, and there are a total of twelve lines.

A third poetic element is the regular meter of the poem. This meter is called iambic pentameter. It’s pentameter because there are five stressed syllables per line. It’s iambic because of the alternating unstressed and stressed syllables: “If EV-er TWO were ONE, then SURE-ly WE.”

I like this poem as an example of Early Modern English, a stage of the English language in which people were still using forms like "thou" and "doth" and were capitalizing words seemingly at random.