I need help with the connotation used in Rudyard kiplings "If"


rhyme scheme?
similies or metaphors?
Assonance?
Connosance?
Allusions?
Punctuation?
Personification?
Enjambment?
End rhymes and internal rhymes?
Diction and symbolism?


Just need it for these stanzas:


If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Hugh, I found this while lookin for info. for Leila:

IF

If you can start the day without caffeine,
If you can get going without pep pills,
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,
If you can overlook it when those you love take it out on you when, no
fault of yours, something goes wrong,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can ignore a friend's limited education and never correct him,
If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,
If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
If you can say honestly that deep in your heart you have no prejudice
against creed, color, religion or politics,
Then, my friend you are almost as good as your dog.

Peter Langston

Thanks! I have seen that one somewhere before, but it's been a long while. IF is still one of the most popular poems around, long after Ruddie's demise. One of the most criticized, as well, perhaps justifiably.

Google is a good place to start for answers to the original questions:

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Les

You saw it on LPQ a week or two back.

Not really, Linda, there are many websites which have the parody, including this one:

[www.jimgeary.com]



Les

I need help finding the meaning of each stanza and the rhyme scheme within the poem as well.

I need help also on the rhyme scheme, rhythm, main idea, syllables in each line. For the poem: If by Rudyard Kepling.

>rhyme scheme, rhythm, main idea, syllables in each line.

Father's advice to son in iambic pentameter rhyming abab cdcd ...

If you do not know what all that means, see:

[www.cs.rice.edu]

[www.poeticbyway.com]