Group #4

Wendy

Ira

Nico

Ee Rang

Grace

Annette

Addo

Cooper

Jan

Park

Se

Soloveichick

lines 15-21

Discourse

Addresser

Addressee

Discourse

Message

an instructor with authority

1. a student who is painting a water lily
2. the reader

Discourse

Message

Upper

Lower

Water Lily

Through the spectrum. Think what worse

General Pattern of Grammar

The choice of words and grammatical structure the author uses makes the seem as if from a prehistoric time.

compound noun usage “pond-bed"

 

genitive case of “pond-bed’s”

 

choice of adjective to carry the theme: "prehistoric", "bedragonned"

lack of verb phrase

choice of verb tense: present perfect

Sound and Rhythm

• alliteration
• rhyme
• rhythm

Alliteration

through, think

 

what, worse

 

set, stare

Rhyme

15-16: /ʊrs/

 

17-18: /s/

 

19-20: /ɛər/

Rhythm: trochaic tetrameter

Through the spectrum. Think what worse

/                  W      /         W         /            W         /

Is the pond-bed’s matter of course;

W W     /            W          /     W     W  /

Prehistoric bedragonned times

/       X    /  X     X    /     X               /

Crawl that darkness with Latin names,

/             X        /        X         X        /    X     /

Have evolved no improvements there,

/           X /              X    X   /            X            /

Jaws for heads, the set stare,

/           X      /              X      /       /

Ignorant of age as of hour-

/   X    /        X    /        X   X    /