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Who Has Seen the Wind?--Sarah Robinson

"Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by."
--Christina G. Rossetti

This poem came out of Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems. This book is an anthology of poetry that ranges from traditional to modern poems. I chose this poem about the weather because it reminds me of the coming of winter, much like the season in Boone currently. Some of the elements of poetry I observed in this poem are rhyme, alliteration, images, and form. In the first stanza, "you" and "through" rhyme. In the second stanza, "I" and "by" rhyme. Some words that I saw consonance in, a form of alliteration, are "Who" and "wind" and "neither" and "nor". The images this poem forms are images of tress rustling in the wind. No one can see the wind but we can observe it blowing a tree which is normally serene and peaceful. Something interesting that I noticed about the form of the poem is that the second and fourth lines in each stanza are indented. I believe that this symbolizes the movement of the wind throughout the poem.

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