Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 8 AIL 0731 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Finding Where a Pattern Breaks
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The idea
Establish the pattern from the first two stanzas, then read forward looking for the first line that violates it. A missing rhyme, an extra foot, a shortened stanza. The break is nearly always placed at a turn in the sense, and that coincidence is the answer.
In practice
The break sits at a turn in sense.
Where people slip
Establish the pattern before hunting.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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