Evelyn, assignment 1

I'm still having trouble posting, but hopefully this will suffice for today.


* "Success is counted sweetest" is isosyllabic as described on p.29. The syllables are equally counted and not dependent on stress.
* There is a chiasmus in the first two lines of the initial word in line one "success" and the line final "succeed" of line two.
* This is also a polyptoton--versions of the same root word.
* There is a merism in the phrase "purple Host" which I see as a metonymy for all the best of this world (kings, royalty, nobility).
* Also there is a totality of notion with "not one of all" which is argument and counter argument. "Took the Flag today" is a merism referring to leaders.
* There is an intensification with "defeated--dying" with the arugment and synomynous argument.
* The reference to battle is a merism for mortal life and the triumph refers to overcoming with eternal life.
* There is an anaphora where we look back (p.36) from the defeated (who didn't succeed) to the first of the poem where we
* There is the verse-line = sentence formula which Dickinson uses, as decribed on p. 39.
* Intensifications with the phrases "sorest need" and "purple Host."


It has been a fun "hide and seek," and I didn't find everyone yet. --Evelyn Stanley