2000:With close reference to two or more poems you have studied, discuss what is distinctive about the language of poetry.

There is a very distinctive language of poetry, we see this in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience poems. What makes poetry so distinctive is the use of rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and the ability to say so much in so few words. Although this is used in other forms of language, it is most distinctive and widely used in poetry.

The use of rhyme is very distinctive to poetry. Rhyme enhances the mood of a poem, connects different lines and stanzas, and reinforces ideas. Rhymes occur in two main places in a poem, either at the end of the line or inside the line. We see Blake using rhyme at the end of a line to reinforce ideas in London. The rhyme scheme for each...