Solitude

Analysis

• "Laugh and the world laughs with you" 
• This quote shows personification by giving human qualities to the world.
• This figurative language makes me picture the world laughing at me.

analysis

• "Weep, and you weep alone."
• This quote shows repetition because it repeats weep. 
• This figurative language makes the mood very sad. 

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• "Sing, and the hills will answer."
• This quote shows personification because the hills do not answer
• This figurative makes the poem seem creepy~ 

analysis

• End Rhymes
• Stanza 1: "alone","own" and "air","care"
• Stanza 2: "go", "woe" and "all", "gall"
• Stanza 3: "by", "die" and "train", "pain"
• The poem uses end rhyme in the poem to give rhythm and mood 

analysis

• Internal Rhyme
• "Succeed and give, and it helps you live"  
•  The poem uses internal rhyme by making live and give rhyme.
• This helps support the idea of the poem.  

Restating stanza one~

• The world has too much trouble of its own to look at you.
• So, laugh instead of weeping alone.
• Text evidence: "Laugh and the world laughs with you"

Restating Stanza Two~

• Nobody is going to look at you especially if your depressed.
• So, rejoice in the environment you are in right now.
• Text evidence: "Rejoice and men will seek you"

Restating Stanza three~

• It is your life not anyone else and one by one we will all die.
• So, Succeed and give while you can!
• Text Evidence: "But one by one we must all file on...
• Through the narrow aisles of pain"

Metaphorical Meaning

• Laugh when you can, and don't weep or be sad.

There is not enough time in life to do childish things like that.