A Poison Tree

Prompt: Discuss the use of sound devices (alliteration, consonance, assonance, rhyming) in one of the poems in your sub-genre reader. How does the author use these elements to create meaning? Please include the poem as part of your response.

In the poem "A Poison Tree" from the Romanticism era, there is a lot of examples of rhyming.  The rhyme scheme was AABB stanza (4 times). The poem seemed very happy because of the rhyming. It seemed like a happy poem but it was actually the poem was quite dark.  I think that the author used the rhyming to make the poem seem happy but when you read it again you realize it is about a man being poisoned under a tree.  I also think the poem was written in a joyful way because during the poem the main character was resenting the man that was poisoned.  In the last line he/she says that his/her friend was glad to see the friend poisoned. 

I was angry with my friend;  (A)

I told my wrath, my wrath did end. (A)

I was angry with my foe: (B)

I told it not, my wrath did grow. (B)

And I waterd it in fears, (A)

Night & morning with my tears: (A)

And I sunned it with smiles, (B)

And with soft deceitful wiles. (B)

And it grew both day and night. (A)

Till it bore an apple bright. (A)

And my foe beheld it shine, (B)

And he knew that it was mine. (B)

And into my garden stole, (A)

When the night had veild the pole; (A)

In the morning glad I see; (B)

My foe outstretched beneath the tree. (B)