Here's a chance for you to find sound elements in a poem. Read “The Sparrow” by Paul Laurence Dunbar and try to find the general meaning of the poem. Then work on analyzing the rhyme pattern, the stanza and the line structure, and the rhythm. Make a list of the poem's characteristics, and briefly describe how they appear in the poem.

The play, doctor faustus, opens with a prologue. by describing faustus's beginnings as a child "base of stock" and his end as his "waxen wings" melted when "heaven conspired" to stop him, the chorus subtly calls to audience's minds, as they begin to view the play, the commonly held idea of the great chain of being the pact with the devil the seven deadly sins the renaissance man