Identify the elements of Poetry in The Canonization **HELP**?

Question

My neice asked me to help her with her English Homework, but my major was math, so I have no idea!!
She needs to identify .. alliteration, assonance, consonance, Rhyme and Rhythm in the following poem

THE CANONIZATION.
by John Donne


FOR God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love ;
Or chide my palsy, or my gout ;
My five gray hairs, or ruin'd fortune flout ;
With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve ;
Take you a course, get you a place,
Observe his Honour, or his Grace ;
Or the king's real, or his stamp'd face
Contemplate ; what you will, approve,
So you will let me love.

Alas ! alas ! who's injured by my love?
What merchant's ships have my sighs drown'd?
Who says my tears have overflow'd his ground?
When did my colds a forward spring remove?
When did the heats which my veins fill
Add one more to the plaguy bill?
Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still
Litigious men, which quarrels move,
Though she and I do love.

Call's what you will, we are made such by love ;
Call her one, me another fly,
We're tapers too, and at our own cost die,
And we in us find th' eagle and the dove.
The phoenix riddle hath more wit
By us ; we two being one, are it ;
So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit.
We die and rise the same, and prove
Mysterious by this love.

We can die by it, if not live by love,
And if unfit for tomb or hearse
Our legend be, it will be fit for verse ;
And if no piece of chronicle we prove,
We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms ;
As well a well-wrought urn becomes
The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,
And by these hymns, all shall approve
Us canonized for love ;

And thus invoke us, "You, whom reverend love
Made one another's hermitage ;
You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage ;
Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove
Into the glasses of your eyes ;
So made such mirrors, and such spies,
That they did all to you epitomize—
Countries, towns, courts beg from above
A pattern of your love."

Answer 1

Alliteration is the same sound at the beginning of two words, as in "just Jerry."

Assonance is the same vowel sound in two words, it can be at the beginning or at the end, as in "after apple" or "heated bees."

Consonance is the same consonant sound in two words, again at either the beginning or the end, as in "nibble on the bib."

Rhyme is of course the same sound at the end of two words, as in "bake cake." There is also such a thing as an eye rhyme where the words look like a rhyme, but sound off, as in "go to." And an off rhyme is where the two words sound enough like each other to count as a rhyme, though they're not exact, as in "bags of scraps."

Rhythm in a poem can be identified in many different ways. Usually it is the meter of the poem, the alternating stresses and unstresses that make the words ebb and flow and carry them across the lines.

For example, if you speak these lines aloud, you will naturally hear stresses on the following syllables:

for GODS SAKE, HOLD your TONGUE, and LET me LOVE;
or CHIDE my PALsy, OR my GOUT;
my FIVE GRAY HAIRS, or RUin'd FOrtune FLOUT;
with WEALTH your STATE, your MIND with ARTS imPROVE;
TAKE you a COURSE, GET you a PLACE,
obSERVE his HONour, OR his GRACE
or the KING'S REAL, or his STAMP'D FACE
CONtemPLATE; what you WILL, apPROVE,
so you WILL let me LOVE.

Each line has a set number of stresses and the pattern mot likely follows in each stanza:
Line 1: 6 stresses
Line 2: 4
Line 3: 6
Line 4: 5
Line 5-8: 4
Line 9: 2

What's more, some lines have a normal ebb and flow, like line 4...this is iambic pentameter. Some are more energetic like line three which hits your ear hard with three subsequent stresses at first and then alternating stresses that then lead you into the next line.

Rhythm can also be seen in the repetition of words. This poem repeats the word "love" at the end of each stanza. This is called a refrain.

All these aural elements will play into thematic elements, linguistic elements, and typographical elements.

For more information on the elements of poetry, see Lewis Turco's Book of Forms.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

This will help you:
http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/donne/section2.rhtml