"There Will Come Soft Rain" Lesson

"There Will Come Soft Rain"

By

           Sara Teasdale          

There will come soft rain and the smell of the     ground,  ________ Couplet            
And swallows circling with their shimmering        sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,  ________  Imagery & Personification
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;  ______________  Imagery

Robins will wear their feathery fire --------   Alliteration
 Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

     Alliteration 

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,  
Would scarcely know that we were gone. ----------- Personification           

The Theme is what the author wants us to understand. It is always universal in that it refers to all of mankind.The theme of our poem is that nature will still survive when the war is over.       A Symbol is anything that stands for something else. Examples of symbols are the frogs, the wild plum trees, and the birds.All of them symbolize the peace that is found in nature. However, the word “war” represents the destruction caused by man.      An End Rhyme is when the last word of each line in a stanza rhyme. All of the following are couplets because the rhyme changes every two lines.        Examples of the end rhymes in this poem:    1st Stanza: ground and sound    2nd Stanza: night and white    3rd Stanza: fire and fence-wire       4th Stanza: one and done           5th Stanza: tree and utterly    6th Stanza: down and gone                                          ALLITERATION PERSONIFICATION RAIN SPRING FROGS END RHYME COUPLET IMAGERY SOFT WAR               1. What type of end rhyme is used in the poem? alliterationcoupletssimiles 2. Which one is an example of this type of end rhyme? fried and tomatoesdown and dogsnight and white 3. What are the frogs doing? singingdancingeating 4. What literary term do we use to describe what the frogs are doing? alliterationpersonificationmetaphorically 5. What other example is there that is like #4? Night is cold.The rbin is an example of alliteration.Spring is personified as a woman. 6. When mankind has been destroyed because of the wars we fight, what will be left?our buildingsnaturechildren