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Life is Fine Safe Sex

Langston Hughes Donald Hall

I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

I came up once and hollered! I came up twice and cried! If that water hadn't a-been so cold I might've sunk and died.

//But it was Cold in that water! It was cold!//

I took the elevator Sixteen floors above the ground. I thought about my baby And thought I would jump down.

I stood there and I hollered! I stood there and I cried! If it hadn't a-been so high I might've jumped and died.

//But it was High up there! It was high!//

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

Consonance is used in this poem, because it uses alot of the same sounds at the ending of the words. For example, if your gonna see me die is one of them. That is my example that consonance is used.

Safe Sex

Donald Hall

If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words;

if she has grown insensible skin under skin; if they desire only the tribute of another’s cry; if they employ each other

as revenge on old lovers or families of entitlement and steel— then there will be no betrayals, no letters returned unread,

no frenzy, no hurled words of permanent humiliation, no trembling days, no vomit at midnight, no repeated

apparition of a body floating face-down at the pond’s edge

Assonance is used in this poem. It is used because in the poem there is alot of the E sound. and using that makes it more enjoyable.

Where the sidewalk ends

Shel silverstein

There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go, For the children, they mark, and the children, they know The place where the sidewalk ends

This poem also uses assonance, because it uses the I sound quite a bit so thats why its assonance. Using assonance makes this poem alot more enjoyable.