On August 1,1963 Leon Ivey Jr. known as “Coolio” was born. Coolio grew up in
Compton, CA. He’s an American rapper, actor, chef, and record producer. Coolio
Achieved mainstream success in the mid 1900’s with his albums “It Takes A Thief &
Gangster’s Paradise”. Gangster’s Paradise was published on November 21, 1956.
In this poem there are 6 stanza and there isn’t a set pattern but the 2nd and 4th stanza is the same. This poem also has a rhyme scheme in the 5th stanza. The rhyme scheme is
“Aabbccde” for example in stanza 5 in line 3 and 4 the words “lookin and cookin”. This poem repeats the words “Lives, Paradise, See and Me”.
Also in this poem Coolio doesn’t use figurative language. This poem compares 2 lives.
The gangster’s life and
The poem does indeed have a rhyme scheme, yet doesn?t conform to conventional forms of rhyme such as A, B, A, B, etc. Rather, each stanza seems to follow the order of A, B, C, A, C, B, which may not be apparent to the reader at first, but doesn?t
The poem “We Real Cool” is a very powerful poem, although expressed with very few words. To me, this poem describes the bottom line of the well known “ghetto life”. It describes the desperate and what they need, other than the usual what they want, money. Without actually telling us all about the seven young men, it does tell us about them. The poem tells of the men’s fears, their ambitions, and who they think they are, versus who they really are.
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.
The poem is separated into two parts, each with sixteen lines, and is loosely based on an iambic pentameter metre. The rhyme scheme is ABAB throughout the poem, with the noticeable exception of the last four lines of part II, in which it changes to
The poem is formed of eight stanzas, each one is six lines long except for the fifth stanza which is an octet. The stanzas are formed of sets of three rhyming couplets in the
by using imagery and other literary devices to appeal to the reader. This poem was created to help society realize that there is a much needed change with young men who lives are constantly ending due to gang violence. The poem focuses on an undertaker who specializes in recreating the natural state of dead bodies, ones that have been mutilated. The undertaker specializes in this recreation for a specific group of young men, “gang members”.
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 test does not give background information about this poem other than the title and who it was written by. There is no identifiable form in this poem. However, there are still patterns to be found. This poem contains 3 stanzas and has 7 lines each, making it 21 lines long. This poem has an open form, containing several end stopped lines. Another noticeable pattern is that despite the end stopped lines, there are full sentences formed and proper capitalization at the beginning of the sentences, and periods used at the end of them. Rhymes are used in this poem, however, it does not have a specific rhyme scheme pattern. It has the inconsistent pattern of ABBCDEF/BEGEEHH/IIFIJKK.
The poem, “Po’ Boy Blues” uses rhyme in the fourth and sixth lines of each stanza.
This poem has a strict a,b,a,b,c,d,c,d pattern. It has roughly 10 syllables per line in iambic pentameter. It has a very strict rhyming pattern and amount of
The poem contains six quatrains, and does not follow any consistent rhyme scheme. Every line starts with a strong beat and ends up with a weak beat. The first and third lines in each stanza have iambic tetrameter, but the second and fourth lines do not contain any consistent meter. The feet generate a rhythm
the first few lines, there seems to be similar word patterns. Not every poem needs rhyme as
Along with the irregularities in meter, neither poem has a regular line length or rhyming pattern. Dickinson’s poem contains alternating tetrameters and trimeters, with the exception of the first line, which contains 7 syllables. The poem contains some irregular rhyme; ‘heard’ in line 5 rhymes with ‘bird’ in line 7, and ‘Sea’ in line 10 rhymes with ‘Me’ in line 12. Whitman’s poem contains even more irregular line lengths. The first 4 lines of each stanza vary from 12 to 15 syllables, but the last 4 lines of each stanza vary from 5 to 8 syllables. Unlike in Dickinson’s poem, the rhyming scheme carries throughout the whole poem, although the AABBCDED rhyme pattern contains a few cases of near rhyme.
There is a rhythm throughout the poem with strong rhyme, this pattern is like heavy breathing you have when you try to go to sleep it could also represent the rhythmical counting of sheep.
The poem has obvious rhyme pattern and meter. Each stanza is written with the ABABCC scheme – it means that first line