Eve To Her Daughters
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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- Very long poem, many long, incomplete sentences
- Verse = free
- Stanzas = 8, linked together well, choppier/more white space towards end
- Rhyme = no end or internal rhyme
- Meter = no formal structure, uses a lot of dashes, commas, and colons
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Consonance: "hungry so often, having to work for our bread, hearing the children whining""
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Rhyme: "I observed this with Abel and Cain. Perhaps the whole elaborate fable"
*last and first lines of two adjacent stanzas
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End Stopped Lines:
the earth was imperfect,
the seasons changed,
the game was fleet-footed,
he had to work for our living,
and he didn’t like it.
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The speaker, Eve, recounts to her daughters the fall of Adam and herself from Eden, and Adam's (mankind's) following quest to become like God after having his pride wounded: “He has turned himself into God,
who is faultless, and doesn’t exist.” She also tells of how she remains loyal and submissive to Adam, compliant despite recognizing his flaws.
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