Musical Devices in Poetry "The Bubble" By Kenneth Hopkins

Musical Devices in Poetry

The Bubble

By Kenneth Hopkins

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I blew myself a bubble

That was bigger than myself

And I floated up inside it

To the top-most shelf,

And there I saw before me

            With my own two eyes

            Half a hundred jam-post

            And four dead flies.

I blew myself a bubble

That was larger than Papa

And he floated off inside it

            As everybody cheered and waved

            To see him overhead

            ‘Your Father is very a clever man’

            They said

Notes :

Blue : Alliteration

            Is the repetition of beginning consonant sounds.

Green : Assonance

            In the repetition of vowel sounds.

Red : Consonance

               Is the repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within words, not just at the       beginning.

Brown      : Onomatopea

          Is the use of words that create the sounds they describe.