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There Will Come Soft Rains By Sara Teasdale
There Will Come Soft Rains
In “There Will Come Soft Rains” Sara Teasdale expresses how our wars and conflicts are insignificant compared to nature. Her poems flow easily with her rhyme scheme of aabbccdd. However, she doesn’t just use her end rhyme but also uses alliteration to create a flow within the poem. In line 4 she says “And wild plum trees in tremulous white;” This shows the poems flow even within each line.Due to most of her poems being inspired by nature she is used to creating a mental image of nature within her poems. She uses onomatopoeia and imagery to make you picture the birds and trees within lines 5-6. She ultimately spends the first half of the poem describing the beauty of nature while spending the second half explaining

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