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Question
If one should come too close to earth
The atmosphere will shake,
With shock wave reaching to the ground
Causing the land to quake.
When you read the poem aloud, you can feel/hear a rhythm. What according to you gives rhythm to the poem- the rhyme or the words in a line? Support your answer with examples from the poem.
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Solution
While we are reading the poem, we come to know that it is a poem about the comet. The poem has six stanzas and each stanza consists of four lines. In every stanza of the poem, only the second and the fourth lines are rhyming. The other lines of each stanza do not rhyme.
The consistency of(the verses in each stanza is well managed and controlled. The first and third lines do not rhyme at all. If we consider the poem stanza wise, the lines are metered uniformly. The rhyme scheme of each stanza is abcb. The poet has used simple language to make the readers enjoy the poem meaningfully.
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