My consideration for reciting any poem is based on a rhythm that results in the musical beat of the written composition. Richard Cory is a verse that has exemplified the use of rhythm and the creation of musical beat by this developed in the composition endears me to recite the work. Edwin Arlington Robinson creates several instances of rhyme that include situations of assonance, consonance, alliteration, as well as, rhyme scheme developed in the poem. Therefore, recitation gives the meaning because it creates entertaining value in the verse. When presenting the poem, the audience is also able to follow and get entertained by the rhythmic flow.
The assonance developed in sound ‘/o/’ is evident in the first line of the first stanza ‘whenever Richard Cory went downtown,’ and assonance ‘/a/’ exhibited in the second last line of the last stanza that goes ‘And Richard Cory, one calm summer night.’ The alliteration is also evident in several instances, an example being alliterated is sound ‘/p/’ in the second line of the first paragraph ‘We people on the pavement looked at him:’ The rhyme scheme is also created in the poem with the first stanza having ‘abab’, a rhyme pattern that is exhibited in town, him, crown, slim. The second stanza has a pattern of ‘cdcd’ while the third stanza has a part which is denoted by ‘efef’, and the last stanza has the pattern that is presented as ‘ghgh’. Therefore, the general rhyme scheme can be presented as ‘ababcdcdefefeghgh’. The three forms of musical tone make me recite the poem so as to exploit the musical presentation and avoid the audience from being disinterested in the verse.
