Journal #5

In the collection of Dr. Seuss's poems he uses a lot of alliteration. For example he used it in the poem If I Ran the Zoo. In this poem he makes up a word, Obsks, then rymes several other made up words with that, such as, Nobsks, Bobsks, Jobsks, and more. He often times has a rhyme scheme aabb or a couplet. Often time he will repeat the same word in each line of the stanzas. For example: The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham. In The Cat in the Hat he uses 'I cannot' to start off the first four lines, then he uses 'my' later in the poem. In Green Eggs and Ham he uses 'I do not like them'. Also when he splits them into couplets he usually will only put two sets of couplets in each stanza. Like in the poem The Juice,

I did not kill my wife.
I did not slash her with a knife.
I did not bonk her on the head.
I did not know she was dead.

I stayed at home that fateful night.
I took a limo, then took a flight.
The bag I had was just for me.
My bag! My bag! Hey, let it be!

He uses white space as shown above a lot of the time. I have noticed that he likes to have stanzas that consist of four lines. It seems he does this to divide his lines up into perfect couplets.
He uses Iamic Pentameter in the poem above and majority of his other poems. This really helps with the rhythm. It makes the poems he writes seem even. They come in two oftens times.