Rhythm is characterized as a poem’s beat and pace; a poem comprises patterns that stress certain words and syllables. In (So, We’ll Go No More a-Roving) George Gordon Byron’s poem, the poet uses rhythm to stress some words, the words stressed are “So” and “we’ll” in the poem from (So, we’ll go no more a-roving/ Yet we’ll go no more a-roving): (lines 1-11). If the words had not been stressed, these two words would change the poem’s meaning. The reader will have to read the poem without getting the real meaning of the poem (Kent 609). The poem portrays how the poet is addressing everyone through stressed words such as “we’ll” (line 1).
The poet addresses every person should be responsible for avoiding heading roving. The stress in “So, we’ll go no more a-roving” (line 1) uses “so” then slowing down the poem and making the reader be keen on the next word. The poet also used stress in the poem to depict how important it is for every person to evade heading to roving in (So, we’ll go no more a-roving/ Yet we’ll go no more a-roving): (lines 1-11).
Work Cited
Kent, George. A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. UP of Kentucky, 2014.