Parallelism can be distinguished in the beginning of the poor man’s choka. For instance, “On nights the wind / mingles with the falling rain, / nights the rain / mingles with the falling snow,” illustrates parallelism by containing words in a comparable arrangement. The phrase “like tattered strands of seaweed” in the poorer man’s choka is one instance of a simile because it compares one idea to another using “like or “as”. Finally, “Lucky to be born / in the world of man, and yet… / I work and toil / as all men do, and yet…” is an example of amplification in the poorer man’s choka. How so is because “and yet…” is the phrase reoccurring for emphasis to dramatize the poorer man’s
Parallelism can be distinguished in the beginning of the poor man’s choka. For instance, “On nights the wind / mingles with the falling rain, / nights the rain / mingles with the falling snow,” illustrates parallelism by containing words in a comparable arrangement. The phrase “like tattered strands of seaweed” in the poorer man’s choka is one instance of a simile because it compares one idea to another using “like or “as”. Finally, “Lucky to be born / in the world of man, and yet… / I work and toil / as all men do, and yet…” is an example of amplification in the poorer man’s choka. How so is because “and yet…” is the phrase reoccurring for emphasis to dramatize the poorer man’s