Summary Of All Along The Watchtower

In the third stanza, a lot of imagery is used. The significant ones are present in the seventh and eleventh lines. In the first line, the poet writes, "A

with a cadence which holds true through out the whole poem (Team, Shmoop Editorial). Service’s application of literary devices like alliteration enhances the flow of the poem; “roam 'round, cursèd cold, foul or fair, half hid, and brawn and brains” (Service).

Longfellow influences the reader to feel tension and excitement through End Rhyme. For instance, in lines 78-80, “The fate of the nation was riding that night/ And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight/ Kindled the land into flame with its heat.” The author uses the pressure of spreading the word to emphasize the stress of needing to warn the fellow patriots, This creates tension by expressing the troublesome passion Paul Revere feels to “save the nation”, or the group of rebels against the British. The author utilizes alliteration to influence feelings of excitement. In particular, in lines 67-69, “Lonely and spectral and somber and still/ And lo! As he looks, on the belfry’s height/ A glimmer, and then a gleam of light.” The author stresses the “glimmer, and then a gleam of light” to symbolize the uprising hope with the new information of the British’s travel. By describing the “...spectral and somber and still” belfry, the author contrasts the before and after of the lanterns in the archway. To clarify, the author influences the reader’s emotions through the use of sound

The poem also uses end rhyme to add a certain rhythm to the poem as a whole. And the scheme he employs: aabbc, aabd, aabbad. End rhyme, in this poem, serves to effectively pull the reader through to the end of the poem. By pairing it with lines restricted to eight syllables. The narrator creates an almost nursery-rhyme like rhythm. In his third stanza however, his last line, cutting short of eight syllables, stands with an emphatic four syllables. Again, in the last stanza, he utilizes the same technique for the last line of the poem. The narrator’s awareness of rhyme and syllable structure provides the perfect bone structure for his poem’s rhythm.

She also presents a slight rhythm to the reading that allows for smooth reading. In keeping with her open form, there is no set scheme to the rhyme pattern. However, there is a single ending sound constantly repeated without a set pattern throughout the work. She also connects pairs of lines at random just for the sake of making connections to make that particular stanza flow. At the same time, she chose blatantly not to rhyme in certain parts to catch the reader’s attention.

In the original Bob Dylan song, the general vibe was folk or even folk rock. The song form is simple verse, as the text of the song contains three verses. The tempo is generally slow, and steady throughout the entire song. Rhythm is kept throughout the song with the acoustic guitar. The beat is kept by backbeat drums, but are relatively subtle to the timbre of the song. The instrumentation of “All Along the Watchtower” includes acoustic guitar, drums and the use of the harmonica. The harmonica shines through two solos and the outro in the song (first solo 0:45-1:00, second solo 1:29-1:44, and outro 2:12-2:31). Bob Dylan’s vocals are unrestrained throughout the song, differing in pitch. He elevates to higher and lower pitches to create a mysterious message in the lyrics. Lyrically, this song is debated as one of Dylan’s most poetic titles, as no concrete conclusions have been made on what the song is actually about. The lyrical melody of the song also sells its folk repertoire to

Lockward’s use of sound was incredible. Readers can hear her anger in the beginning, her humor as she talks about writing and hiding her poem, and her husbands emotional break down at the end. The stanzas in this poem aren’t traditional, they aren’t set to a fixed pattern but each vary in the amount of lines they contain. One stanza contains five lines, while another contains eight.

The song is forty-four lines in all with a consistent line length, where it's not too long or too short. The poem uses free form allowing the freedom to say what was needed. It allowed him

Apart from that, the poem consists of a series of turns that reflect different parts of the speaker’s feelings and the experiences he had. The significance of these turns is made possible through the use of stanza breaks. For example, the first

The first stanza calls for everybody to gather together and for them to unite in this time of change. In lines 3-6, Dylan wants people to admit that times are changing and stop denying it before it overwhelms them.

The poem does not follow a rhyme scheme or meter, which means that there is rhythm in the poem and it makes the poem more like a song. The poem has four stanza’s and has five lines within each stanza.

This stanza a few repeats of literary devices we've already seen in earlier stanzas. Line 30 has another example of assonance using the words "around" and "frowns". Another repeat of a literary device is in line 33 with internal rhyme; "You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you". There are two examples of metaphors with "the chrome horse" in line 34 and line 35, "who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat". These strange, difficult to understand lyrics are very common in Dylan songs. Sometimes entire songs are made up of these vague metaphors, such as "It's All Right Ma, I'm Only Bleeding," and "It's a Hard Rain That's Gonna Fall".

Alliteration and metaphors are two major elements of this poem. The repetition of consonant sounds and alliteration occurs throughout the poem. All of the lines strongly use the repetition of consonants and alliteration except for lines two and seven. In addition to that, the controlling figure of speech in this poem is a metaphor. It is strongly articulated in the first line, and as the one continues to read, it is amplified and extended throughout the rest of the poem. The metaphor compares mask of Line 1 to the fabricated emotive facades that African-Americans had made use of in order to avert provoking their oppressors.

Despite the separation of each stanza, they are all connected through enjambment. Nearly all the stanzas end with an unfinished sentence or thought, and the first line of the following stanza continues or completes it. This separation informs the reader of a change of subject, either mild or extreme, but provides the knowledge that the subjects are still connected. Simultaneously, the break also provides the emphasis designated to each separate thought.

Rhyme is found all throughout the poem and has a huge effect on the reader. Blake used rhyme and detail to create some more wicked thoughts of the Tyger in the readers mind. Each stanza is made up of two couplets. Because these couplets keep a steady going rhyme, we