What are assonance and alliterations in The Lake By Poe?

Answer 1

THE LAKE

by: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

• n spring of youth it was my lot

  To haunt of the wide world a spot

  The which I could not love the less--

  So lovely was the loneliness

  Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,

  And the tall pines that towered around.But when the Night had thrown her pall

  Upon that spot, as upon all,

  And the mystic wind went by

  Murmuring in melody--

  Then--ah then I would awake

  To the terror of the lone lake.Yet that terror was not fright,

  But a tremulous delight--

  A feeling not the jewelled mine

  Could teach or bribe me to define--

  Nor Love--although the Love were thine.Death was in that poisonous wave,

  And in its gulf a fitting grave

  For him who thence could solace bring

  To his lone imagining--

  Whose solitary soul could make

  An Eden of that dim lake.

• The full poem is as above.

Answer 2

In "The Lake" by Edgar Allan Poe, examples of assonance can be found in phrases like "waves lay down" and "willow trees." Alliteration is present in lines such as "solemn trees" and "blue above us." These literary devices contribute to the poem's rhythmic and musical quality.

Answer 3

In this poem, he rhymes alot. Also, in line 2 he uses alliteration with "the wide world." Onomatopoeia is also used when he describes the wind "murmuring" in melody.

Answer 4

Poe used metaphor in the first line of the first stanza by describing his youth as spring