Analyzing Robert W. Service's poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee"

Read and analyze Robert W. Service's narrative poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee." This poem describes the hardships of prospectors in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s.

Part A

Identify the literary and poetic sound devices used in the poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee."

1. Label the rhyme scheme for each stanza, using letters (a, b, c, d, etc.) to indicate which lines rhyme with each other.
2. Find examples of the following literary and poetic devices in the poem and complete a table with at least one example for each device:

- Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close together.
- Assonance: The repetition of similar vowel sounds in two or more words that start with different consonants (e.g., mellow wedding bells).
- Consonance: The repetition of consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables (e.g., wind and sand).
- Hyperbole: A figure of speech that uses an exaggeration (e.g., I caught a million fish).
- Understatement: A figure of speech used to make something seem less important than it really is.
- Imagery: The use of words to describe sensory experience, such as sight, smell, or touch.
- Personification: A figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as having human traits.
- End rhyme: The matching of similar sounds in two or more words that occur at the end of two or more lines.
- Internal rhyme: A rhyme between two or more words that occurs within a line of a poem.