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Not Waving But Drowning

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING

BY: STEVIE SMITH
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STRUCTURE

  • A very short poem; an even mix of end stop and enjambment
  • Verse: Free
  • Stanzas: Quatrains
  • Rhyme: A few end rhyme and slant rhyme
  • Meter: No set meter
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Imagery

"But he still lay moaning"

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Consonance

"Nobody heard him, the dead man."

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Irony

"Not waving but drowning."

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After this man dies he recalls how his entire life he was calling out for help but it never looked like it on the outside and how he wished someone had noticed.

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Related song: I'll Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab For Cutie

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Stevie, Smith
"Not Waving But Drowning"
Reading The World: Contemporary Literature from Around The Globe.
Ed. Carol Francis.
Logan, IA: Perfection
Learning, 2012. Ebook

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MADE BY MARTIN ZUGSCHWERT

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