I WILL PRONOUNCE YOUR NAME

STRUCTURE

• Mostly end stopped lines
• No line breaks
• About 12 feet per line

REPETITION

• “Naëtt, that is the dry tornado, the hard clasp of lightning”
• “Naëtt, coin of gold, shining coal, you my night, my sun! ...”
• These quotes show the repition of Naëtt and the descriptions of her.

PERSONIFICATION

• “Naëtt, your name is mild like cinnamon, it is the fragrance in which the lemon grove sleeps,”
• This quote shows how a lemon grove sleeps in a fragrance which doesnt make sense
• Because lemon groves don't sleep

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TO SUM IT UP...

• The speaker of the poem shows how desperate he/she is to pronounce the name Naëtt
• The speaker gives the reader many description of Naëtt

TREASURE

• Treasure by: Bruno Mars is similar to this poem because
• The poem describes Naëtt as being as the speakers everything
• Which is very similar to how Bruno Mars describes "his girl"
• Being a treasure to him

.LÉOPOLD, SÉDAR SENGHOR "I Will Pronounce Your Name" . Reading the World: Contemporary Literature From Around the Globe. Ed. Carol Francis. Logan, IA: Perfection Learning, 2012. eBook.

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