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Essay / Disillusionment Analysis of Ten O Clock by William...
The definition of a rhyme according to Yourdictionary.com is a poem composed of lines with similar ending sounds or to speak with words or phrases with the same ending sound. An example of rhyming used outside of "The Lamb" is saying the words bike and like, or another example of rhyming is the children's poem "Humpty Dumpty". In “The Lamb,” author William Blake uses rhyme to make his poem more expressive. For example “Little lamb, who made you?/ Do you know who made you?/ Gave you life and asked you to feed you,/ By the stream and on the mead; » (Lines 1 to 4). The author uses the words you, food and mead, all rhymes which give a lot of rhythm to the poem The Lamb. The definition of rhythm according to Yourdictionary.com is a recurring movement of sound or speech. Another example is “I have given you garments of delight, / The softest garments, woolly and brightest”; » (Lines 5-6). The last example I will use from “The Lamb” is “He is gentle and he is gentle,/He is become a little child:” (Lines 15-16). These are all examples of rhymes that the author uses to create rhythm and make the poem